Cheers to Wine World Trailblazer Jancis Robinson

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4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Let’s raise a glass because today’s guest is a world-renowned wine expert—the trailblazing Jancis Robinson. A wine critic, correspondent, and columnist with more than 100 awards to her name, Jancis is the author of the Oxford Companion to Wine and the force behind Jancis Robinson.com, an online resource about all things wine that she launched 20 years ago. Jancis joins host Kerry Diamond to talk about her remarkable life and career, from her time at Oxford to helping select wine for the Queen of England to her recent glassware collaboration. They also talk about how issues such as sexism and sustainability are changing the world of wine.

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0:00.0	People won't believe this, but in the 70s, the subjects of wine and food had zero social status, certainly in Britain.
0:08.7	And if I had said to my fellow students, you know, I'm going to go and work in wine or food, they'd have said, what a shocking waste of an Oxford education, you can't do that.
0:20.3	And they were really thought of as being utterly
0:23.2	frivolous subjects.
0:24.6	Boys and girls are all fired up
0:32.6	Boys and girls are all fired up
0:35.6	Whole world's chicken, drinking baby and we're all fired up Hey, everyone. Hey, everyone. Hey, everyone. Hey,
0:38.3	baby, and we're all bad at.
0:40.3	Hey,
0:42.3	everyone.
0:43.3	Welcome to Radio Cherry Bomb, the podcast that's all about women and food.
0:47.3	And today, drink.
0:49.3	I'm your host, Carrie Diamond, coming to you from Brooklyn, New York.
0:53.3	Let's raise a glass because
0:54.7	today's guest is a world-renowned wine expert. It's the trailblazing Jansis Robinson,
1:00.4	a wine critic, correspondent, and columnist. Jansis is the author of the Oxford Companion to Wine
1:06.2	and the Force Behind Jansis Robinson.com, an online resource about all things wine that she launched
1:12.9	20 years ago. Jansis has received more than 100 awards over the course of her career, that is
1:18.8	impressive, and no doubt more are on the horizon. Jansis joined me to talk about her remarkable career,
1:25.4	which even includes doing some wine work for the
1:27.5	Queen of England. We also talk about how issues such as sexism and sustainability are changing
1:33.1	the world of wine. Today's episode is sponsored by our friends at Kerry Gold, the makers of
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