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Can America Save the Wine World?

W. Blake Gray
Features
4 min read
Picture a public tasting, an important one, held in Montpellier, France. People are tasting American wines. And grimacing. The wines are too sweet. Too primitive. And too funky. People want to like them, really they do, but these American wines just don't seem good enough to save the wine world,

A Consumer Revolution in Wine

David White
Features
2 min read
"This democratization of wine is great," asserted Jancis Robinson, one of the world's leading wine authorities, over coffee one recent morning. Robinson was in Washington, D.C., to promote the seventh edition of The World Atlas of Wine, the indispensable reference book co-authored with Hugh Johnson. Robinson has spent the last

From AVAs to Zinfandel, Jancis takes on American Wine

Gary Thomas
About
4 min read
British wine critic Jancis Robinson has something of a romantic debt to American wine.   Not only was her first British national wine story about American wine, but she met her husband, Nick Lander, when they organized a tasting of American wines in London. At the time, wines from the US

All You Ever Wanted to Know About Wine Grapes

Remy Charest
Features
4 min read
Wine Grapes, the huge new encyclopedic work by Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding, and José Vouillamoz covering 1,368 varieties of grapes used to make wine around the world, is at once full of surprises and unsurprising. It is full of surprises because it is full of information about the secret life

Natural Wine: On a Practical Note…

Remy Charest
Features
14 min read
So here I was, last spring, talking away with the recently-departed Marcel Lapierre, the Beaujolais vigneron who was one of the dominant figures of the natural wine movement in its strictest definition—organic in the vineyard, wine made with grape juice-read more-