Jancis Robinson | JancisRobinson.com
WEBSee our competition guide for a full overview of the competition and the list of all published entries. Twelve years ago, JancisRobinson.com held its first writing competition, on restaurants, and, following the success of our first wine writing competition in 2016, we decided to make this an annual competition, with a new wine-oriented theme ...
Burgundy Red Wine Vintage Chart: 1978 to 2022
WEB2001. Wet summer with some heat spikes. As for red bordeaux from this vintage, a gentle hand was needed in the winery to retain delicacy and not emphasize the already notable tannins. Quite varied quality. Wines from low-yielding grapes will provide exciting long-term drinking but others are gawky. August hail in Volnay.
Muscat | JancisRobinson.com
WEBIn Italy it may be called Moscato d'Asti, Moscato di Canelli or simply Moscato Bianco. Its other aliases include Muscat of Frontignan, Muscat Lunel, Muskateller, Moschato Spinas or Muscat of Spina This sort of Muscat is capable of producing wines with real finesse and a particularly pure, floral sort of grapiness.
Cabernet Sauvignon | JancisRobinson.com
WEBThe progeny of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc, is the world's most famous red wine grape, and most planted of any colour.The 'chocolate' to Chardonnay's 'vanilla', Cabernet is much more positively flavoured than Chardonnay, and ripens much later, so tends to be planted in rather warmer areas. The great distinction of the wine it produces is that it has a very powerful and recognisable ...
Merlot wine grapes | JancisRobinson.com
WEBMerlot conventionally makes lush, plummy, velvety wine that can soften Cabernet's more austere frame and, usefully, matures much faster. Very much a wine of the times, it enjoyed enormous popularity in the United States in the 1990s and early 2000s – until usurped by Pinot Noir. Merlot's homeland is Bordeaux where it is the most important ...
Cabernet Franc | JancisRobinson.com
WEBIn 1997 it was shown by pioneers of applying DNA analysis to grapevines that Cabernet Sauvignon is the progeny of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc, so in fact Cabernet Franc, whose origins seem to lie in Basque country in the western Pyrenees, must predate Cabernet Sauvignon by quite a while.As a vine and a wine, Cabernet Franc is more ...
Nebbiolo | JancisRobinson.com
WEBIf Pinot Noir is the world's most tantalising grape, Nebbiolo runs it a close second – for very similar reasons. While the red burgundy grape has been slow to travel happily from its birthplace, and is only just showing signs of settling down in places such as Oregon, Australia, South Africa and cooler parts of California, good Nebbiolo wine is still extremely difficult to find outside its ...
Pinot Noir | JancisRobinson.com
WEBThe fashionable red burgundy grape is capable of producing divinely scented, gorgeously fruity expressions of place but often unwilling or unable to do so. Pinot Noir is sensitive to the size of crop it is expected to produce, and many vapid examples exemplify an over-demanding yield. It ripens relatively early (Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are often harvested at the same time in Burgundy) so is ...
Piquette – a summer wine for everyone | JancisRobinson.com
WEBMar 11, 2021 · Piquette is a third wine. The first wine is from free-run juice, the second from pressed grapes, and the third, from the leftover grape skins and seeds themselves. Piquette’s North American pioneer is Todd Cavallo from Wild Arc Farm in the Hudson Valley region of New York state. Todd’s family began farming vegetables and herbs, making ...
Chenin Blanc | JancisRobinson.com
WEBIn my 1986 book Vines, Grapes and Wines (Reben Trauben Weine, Hallwag 1987 in German) – the world's first consumer guide to wine grapes I believe – I divided them into three categories: Classic, Major and Other (Klassische, Wichtige and Sonstige). Many wine lovers at the time were doubtless puzzled that I included Chenin Blanc in the first category.
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