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| Jancis Robinson
is a wine writer and broadcaster with an international reputation.
The first journalist to have passed the notoriously stiff Master of
Wine exams, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by The Open University
in 1997 and is Decanter Magazine's 1999 (Wo)Man of the Year. She was
also voted Television Personality of the year in the 1999 Glenfiddich
Awards, the first time ever for both food and drink media. Her award winning books include "Vines, Grapes and Wines" (1986) and "The Oxford Companion to Wine". This encyclopedic work rapidly became the standard wine reference when it was first published in 1994. A second edition published in 1999 was very highly acclaimed, and is being translated into French, German, Danish, Japanese and Chinese. Future publications include "Jancis Robinson's Wine Tasting Work Book" (August 2000), "The Oxford Companion to the Wines of North America" (October 2000) and "Jancis Robinson's Concise Oxford Companion" (Spring 2001). Hugh Johnson has also persuaded her to take over the next (5th) edition of "The World Atlas of Wine" (autumn 2001). She is a columnist for the Sunday Times, The Wine Spectator, The Financial Times, and of course WINE Magazine in Japan. In 1989 Jancis and her husband Nick Lander, a well known restaurateur and food critic, formed their own independent television company Eden Productions which has made several award-winning series on food and wine including the 10-part magnum opus Jancis Robinson's BBC Wine Course which won the prestigious American James Beard Award. |
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 eWines
has produced a Japanese version of the 300 minute Jancis Robinson
BBC Wine Course - this is sub-titled in Japanese and works on Japanese
VHS system. It contains 10 different segments, each on a particular
grape variety. A thoroughly enjoyable and useful tool for all wine
lovers. In the video, which took 6 months to produce, Jancis travels
the world meeting many famous wine makers - the video is a fascinating
insight into their different philosophies and wine backgrounds. The
cost in Japan is 10,000 yen. |
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