Welcome to Episode 3 of TRINKTalks. Today’s conversation is with Jancis Robinson, an absolute power house within the wine world. Listen in as she discusses Riesling (one of her favorite wines!), as well as the German market and what it might do to help exports to countries like England where there is a need for more German wines and German wine education.
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Jancis Robinson, is regarded as one of the world’s most influential wine writers. Jancis founded www.jancisRobinson.com in 2000. Since 1990, she has been the wine correspondent for the Financial Times. Robinson is the founder-editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine and co-author of the acclaimed The World Atlas of Wine and Wine Grapes. She is the first non-trade person to pass the Master of Wine exams in 1984, and she was awarded an OBE in 2003. Jancis Robinson has also received numerous international honors, including six James Beard Awards. Her contribution to wine is just too vast to list here! We encourage you to visit her bio to learn more.
If you want to hear more from Jancis on the topic of Riesling, you can by heading over to her website.
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Valerie Kathawala specializes in the wine cultures, traditions, and innovations of Germany, Austria, South Tyrol, and Switzerland, as well as those closer to her home in New York City. Her work appears in the pages of Noble Rot, The Art of Eating, SevenFifty Daily, Meininger’s Wine Business International, Pipette, Glug, Pellicle and a number of other publications. She is the co-founder and co-editor of the wine magazine TRINK. She is currently at work researching and writing a new course (2025) on German wines for the Wine Scholar Guild.
Paula Redes Sidore moves smoothly between the worlds of wine and words. She is a double-certified sommelier, through the Court of Master Sommeliers and the Chamber of Commerce. In 2012, she founded Weinstory, a creative content and translation agency dedicated to transposing the world of German-speaking wine into English. TRINK is the natural extension of that pursuit. She is the German and Austrian regional specialist for jancisrobinson.com and a member of the Circle of Wine Writers. Paula has a Masters degree in fiction writing, and her work has been featured in jr.com, Sevenfifty Daily, Feinschmecker, and Heated. She lives on the northern wall of wine growing with her family in Bonn, Germany.
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