Truly 21st century wines at Decanter's Masterclass

Jancis Robinson

Monday 20 November 2006

See below for some updates to this which seems to have stirred quite a reaction.

I held a Masterclass at Decanter’s wine weekend on Saturday morning, the first of the 10^th birthday celebrations of this annual event, and thought you might be interested in the wines I showed and how they were received.

Since all participants got a copy of the new, 3^rd edn of The Oxford Companion to Wine I chose as my theme, ‘Twenty-first Century Wines’, wines that didn’t exist when the last, 2^nd edition was published in 1999 (you may recognise two or three...

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