Jancis Robinson on Conversation with Jason

FESCH.TV INFORMIERT:

This week on Conversation with Jason, we had the pleasure of speaking with Jancis Robinson. Jancis is founder-editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine, co-author with Hugh Johnson of The World Atlas of Wine (4.7 million copies sold just before the 8th edition was published in October 2019), co-author of Wine Grapes (winner of the James Beard Award for best beverage book) and some 30 other seminal reference and popular wine books. Plus she’s the wine columnist for Financial Times, wine advisor to the Queen of England, and the first person outside the wine trade to achieve the prestigious Master of Wine.

In their conversation, Jason and Jancis discuss her discovery of wine at Oxford, how wine provided a way to explore her love of history and travel, how the world of wine has grown in her five decades researching and writing about it, and why she still points people to Greece, Portugal, and South Africa as areas with deep traditions yet less than the appropriate amount of respect in the wine market. Plus, she shares how she comes up with topics to write about, what she hopes to do now that she’s sold jancisrobinson.com, and why she thinks the royal cellar is in good hands with the next generation of English royalty.

All that and more in this week’s conversation.