The English journalist Jancis Robinson (*1950) has a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Oxford. She began her career in wine in 1975 as a contributor to the wine magazine "Wine and Spirits". In 1984, she became the first female journalist to pass the Master of Wine examination.
Works
Of her many books, "Reben, Trauben, Weine" (1987), the gold medal-winning " Oxford Companion to Wine" (1995 - revised editions 2003, 2007), "Weinkurs" (1996), "Rebsorten und ihre Weine" (1996) and "The World Atlas of Wine" (2001 - with Hugh Johnson), as well as the work "Wine Grapes" (2012 - with Julia Harding and José Vouillamoz), which has been apostrophised as a "wine bible", are worth mentioning. From 1980 to 1986, she succeeded Johnson as wine correspondent of the "Sunday Times".
At Vinitaly in 1996, she won the "Veronafiere" trophy for her "special skills in popularising wine culture and viticulture". In 1989, she founded a TV production company together with her husband, which produced the ten-part programme "Jancis Robinson's Wine Course", among others. Jancis Robinson also writes regularly for the "Financial Times" and the wine magazine Wine Spectator. With the current 2002 edition, Hugh Johnson entrusted her with the editorial responsibility for the "Great Wine Atlas".
Honours
In 1984 she won the coveted "Glenfiddich Trophy" for the first time and in 1986 she was honoured as "Wine Writer of the Year" and "Food Writer of the Year", and in 1999 she was awarded the Steinfeder Prize for wine journalism. In October 2003, Queen Elizabeth II honoured Jancis Robinson with the title "Officer of the Order of the British Empire". Jancis Robinson lives in London. Her many books have often been used as sources in the representational Wine lexicon.
Further information
See also Literature (wine authors), Winegrowing institutions and Winegrowing personalities.
