Devastating flooding continues to impact Brazil (see the destruction on the Speranza property in Bento Gonçalves shown above) and Australia’s wine business is considering a concerning level of market consolidation. But there is good news today, in a report on US wine sales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The warming climate continues to wreak havoc on wine regions around the world. Sam has some smart advice on how to help – and how prioritize the planet with all your wine-buying choices. Read the transcript of this episode at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/brazil-floods-sea-smoke-sale-rising-temperatures-one-less-wine-magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The good news is that en primeur Bordeaux prices have been slashed by as much as 40%. The bad news is that the weather is not cooperating with winegrowers in France, Germany and Spain, and Türkiye’s wineries are facing crippling taxes … Read the transcript of this podcast at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/bordeaux-price-cuts-hail-frost-and-drought-damage-europe-turkiyes-threatening-taxes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Single-quinta vintage port announcements are a rare bright spot in a week of frost reports and new data on falling consumption, production and trade. Read the transcript of this episode at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/frosts-devastates-eu-vineyards-port-2022-releases-falling-wine-consumption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Neo-prohibitionist organizations are behind recent anti-alcohol policy at the WHO and California's largest wine companies are importing foreign bulk wine and selling it under American labels. Read the transcript of this episode at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/neo-prohibitionists-and-who-and-californias-imported-bulk-wine-problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chile’s Valparaíso region is hit by devastating fires, Alberta threatens to block any wine imports from British Columbia, the EU Commission scraps their most recent pesticide proposal, and Jancis is awarded the IMW Lifetime Achievement Award while the Old Vine Registry receives the Heritage Initiative Award. Read the transcript of this episode at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/chilean-wildfires-canadian-cold-snap-and-eu-pesticide-proposals-scrapped. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Farmer protests in France wind down, protests in Riverland Australia pick up, Accolade Wines’ debt is acquired by Australian Wine Holdco, the Oregon wine industry fumes over Oregon Health Authority’s anti-alcohol campaign, and 67 Pall Mall launches the Global Wine Communicator Awards. Read the transcript of this episode at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/farmer-led-protests-accolade-buyout-oregons-alcohol-tax-uproar-and-more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'regenerative' Uneasy times in the south of France and at Vintage Wine Estates on the US West Coast, while Saudi Arabia opens a wine store and California attempts to define regenerative agriculture. Read the transcript of this episode at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/french-farmers-protest-saudis-sell-wine-and-other-wine-news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Those who follow the musical career of Maynard James Keenan, lead singer of bands such as Tool, Puscifer and A Perfect Circle, may not know that he is an accomplished winemaker in the Grand Canyon state. He planted his first vines in Arizona in 2002 and from 2009 has been making such good wine at his Caduceus winery that he has become a bit of a poster boy for Arizona wine. He tells wine writer and ex Arizona resident Elaine Chukan Brown how the late South Australian winemaker Taras Ochota inspired him to become America’s pioneer of unusual blends – a red wine grape with a white one, for instance. Other Australian influences include using his lab equipment to analyze two of the country’s most famous classic wines which showed him that grapes don’t need to be super-ripe to make great wine. He reveals himself as a real wine geek and committed farm-to-table restauranteur – in fact there’s hardly any mention of music in this intriguing conversation with the man who has arguably done most to put Arizona on the world wine map. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Christian Seely is not a winemaker, but he runs a crack team of fine winemakers all over the world as the man in charge of the wine division of insurance company AXA. But he’s no boring executive; he really, really cares about wine and consistently produces some of the highest-rated wines in the world. Under his aegis, second growth Ch Pichon Baron in Pauillac, for instance, is making wine of Bordeaux first growth quality – partly by cutting production by about a half. His Sauternes property Ch Suduiraut is consistently a top scorer too. Seely’s first love was port and AXA’s Quinta do Noval is another stunning property whose wines now match their setting. He also has experience of wine production in fashionable Burgundy, Tokay in Hungary and, most recently, the Napa Valley. In this episode Jancis grills him about price of fine wine, what constitutes classic wine, and the notorious en primeur system of selling bordeaux before it’s even bottled. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Two women who care passionately about our changing climate, wine writer Elaine Chukan Brown and sustainability scientist Professor Kimberly Nicholas, who has a special interest in biodiversity, farming, wine and food, discuss what we as individuals can do in the face of our rapidly warming planet. They look at the bigger picture but also how climate change affects wine production and how wine lovers might play their part in reducing carbon emissions. ‘Wine is a fingerprint or a taste of climate change,’ says Nicholas, whose PhD topic was the effect of climate change on the wine industry in her native California. She identifies the three areas in which we can have greatest personal effect by modifying our behaviour and actually quantifies a wine-bottle carbon emission equivalent of a round-trip flight between London and New York. (It’s many more than you might think!) They discuss how apparently small decisions such as how wine is packaged can have a considerable effect. And Nicholas is a realist. Her book Under the Sky We Make; How to be Human in a Warming World has a cheat sheet at the end for those who’d rather use that than read the whole book. Very considerate…. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This is the remarkable story of four Zimbabwean economic refugees who arrived in South Africa with nothing but the clothes on their back (and having never tasted wine) who ultimately became the first ever team from Zimbabwe to compete in the World Wine Championships. Towards the end of the first decade of this century, there was an exodus of economic migrants from Zimbabwe where in August 2008, inflation reached a staggering 11.2 million per cent. Under President Robert Mugabe, many Zimbabweans were well educated yet often unable to feed themselves and their families. Many young people smuggled themselves over the border to reach South Africa seeking work. Four of these men, independent of one another, worked their way up to become respected sommeliers at Cape Town’s top four restaurants, despite never having known wine or fine dining in Zimbabwe – or indeed each other. Journalist Erica Platter wrote an article on JancisRobinson.com about them which led to a crowdfunding initiative on the site to get them, as Team Zimbabwe, to Burgundy to compete in the World Wine Tasting Championships. An Australian film crew documented the entire journey and produced an award winning film Blind Ambition (100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes) about this bold initiative. In this episode, Tinashe Nyamudoka, one of the four Zim somms and now the producer of Kumusha Wines, shares his extraordinary story with Jancis. Story of Blind Ambition: https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/story-blind-ambition Blind Ambition official film website: http://www.samuelgoldwynfilms.com/blind-ambition/ Kumusha Wines: https://www.kumushabrands.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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