Jancis Robinson
British wine critic and Master of Wine, editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine and wine columnist for the Financial Times.
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Their wordsPeople say that California wines don’t age, but they are so wrong.
↗In praise of (some) old California redsjancisrobinson.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsMy advice? To snap up any California reds from the 1970s you might be lucky enough to find and afford.
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Their wordsbe assured that the best Napa Cabs are freshening up after the extreme ripeness of the three decades from the 1990s.
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Warmer summers are far from the whole explanation of how wine alcohol levels have changed.
Their wordsIt is popularly believed that, thanks to ever-warmer summers, wine is becoming steadily more potent, but this is far from the whole picture
↗Searching for weaker winesjancisrobinson.com 1st of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsToday’s producers and consumers have been turning away from alcohol and are actively looking for fresher wines. In fact, it has become something of a fetish.
↗Searching for weaker winesjancisrobinson.com 2nd of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsIn my experience, although most wine drinkers today are actively seeking less alcohol, they want no sacrifice of flavour.
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Organic and biodynamically grown vines tend to ripen earlier with no loss of wine quality.
Their wordsAnd, in general, organic and biodynamically grown vines tend to ripen earlier with no loss of quality in the finished wine.
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The UK's strength-linked wine duty may have increased the population's sugar consumption.
Their wordsA government tactic designed to make the population healthier by consuming less alcohol has, therefore, resulted in potentially increasing its consumption of sugar.
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