Food & Drink mini-series: Jancis Robinson on wine trends
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Forhecz Topher
4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to our summer Food & Drink mini-series, where every Wednesday for four weeks an expert teaches us something new. Lilah’s third guest, Jancis Robinson, is the FT’s wine columnist and one of the most respected wine experts in the world. She joins us from France to talk through today’s top wine trends: oak is out, concrete is in. Heavy reds are out, paler and more acidic reds are in. And more!
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Links and mentions from the episode:
– Last time Jancis was on the podcast, she told her story and taught us how we can begin our journey with wine. Listen here: https://www.ft.com/content/53fb48ad-183a-47df-8535-4ab3e9bb0ce7
– A recent column by Jancis: ‘Why the era of ageing wine in concrete may finally have come’: https://on.ft.com/3Cz7thu
– Jancis’s website is www.jancisrobinson.com and she’s on Instagram and Twitter at @jancis_robinson
– The two books Lilah mentioned are The World Atlas of Wine and The 24-Hour Wine Expert.
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This episode was produced by Molly Nugent. Original music by Metaphor Music. Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco.
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| 0:00.0 | FT Weekend Food and Drink is supported by Plymouth Gin. |
| 0:04.8 | Hi, FT Weekend listeners. |
| 0:06.6 | Welcome to the third episode of our four-part mini-series on Food and Drink. |
| 0:11.5 | For each one, I'm approaching a different expert in the food world that is really good at something, |
| 0:17.1 | and I'm asking them to teach us about that thing. |
| 0:20.1 | Today is a great one. |
| 0:21.3 | I've invited Jansis Robinson onto the show. |
| 0:23.6 | Jancis is a master of wine. |
| 0:25.7 | She's one of the world's most esteemed wine experts. |
| 0:28.5 | She's been doing this for over 50 years. |
| 0:31.1 | And lucky for us, she is also the FTs wine columnist. |
| 0:35.0 | So today she joins us from France to discuss wine trends. What's cool now, |
| 0:40.5 | what we should be paying attention to, and why. Okay, let's get into it. This is F.T. Weekend, |
| 0:46.5 | the podcast special edition. I'm Lila Raptopoulos. Here's Jances. |
| 0:57.3 | Jances, welcome. |
| 0:59.2 | It is so nice to have you back on the show. |
| 1:00.3 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:00.9 | It's a pleasure. |
| 1:02.8 | So we're talking wine trends. |
| 1:07.2 | The most obvious trend that we can probably start with is natural wine. |
| 1:08.4 | What's going on there? |
| 1:15.3 | A natural wine, supposedly, is a wine to which the maker has not added anything, ideally. So it's just fermented grape juice. I mean, the first wines for the first |
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