Wine personality of the day

Jancis Robinson has become one of the world’s leading writers of educational and encyclopaedic material on wine and was described by Decanter magazine as ‘the most respected wine critic and journalist in the world’. The Oxford Companion to Wine is widely considered to be the most comprehensive wine encyclopaedia in the world. It was first published in 1994, now in its fourth edition, the original book took five years to write. In addition, The World Atlas of Wine by Hugh Johnson and Robinson is one of the world’s leading wine atlases now in its seventh edition. Robinson also co-wrote the highly acclaimed Wine Grapes in 2012 which is the most concise compilation of wine grapes ever produced and contains detailed research into over 1200 known grape varieties used in wine production.