The world’s most influential wine commentator Jancis Robinson, OBE, MW, is heading to New Zealand for Pinot Noir NZ 2017.
Bringing Ms Robinson to New Zealand, with her world leading reputation as one of the most authoritative wine critics and writers, is seen as a major coup for the country’s Pinot Noir producers. It is the biggest international wine conference held in the southern hemisphere.
Ms Robinson is the first in a leading line-up of 15 guest speakers to be announced for the highly anticipated three-day event being held on Wellington’s waterfront from 31st January 2017.
Speaking from her base in London, Ms Robinson said New Zealand seems to be making better and more intricate and expressive Pinot every year. “I’m really looking forward to getting to grips with how New Zealand’s different regions now express themselves through Pinot Noir,” she said.
Pinot Noir NZ 2017 chair Ben Glover said Ms Robinson was internationally renowned as the most powerful woman in the wine world and definitely added x-factor to what he promises will be an amazing event for both the wine industry and the public. “As an opinion leader, Jancis has built an international reputation as a highly respected, disciplined and professional wine critic and writer, who is always open to new ideas and discussion.”
“She is a dynamic injection to Pinot Noir NZ 2017 and will get us all energized and thinking about where we are now, how we have evolved and where we see our potential as we embark on a fantastic future,” he said.
“New Zealand Pinot Noir has reached an exciting era and we need to tell our story to the world” said Mr Glover.
Held every four years, Pinot Noir NZ 2017 will be, without question, the place to be in the wine world at that time. At the event over 100 producers from New Zealand’s diverse Pinot producing regions will come together to showcase over 300 wines. It attracts some of the greatest international minds on the subject of Pinot Noir.
Described by London’s Decanter magazine as ‘the most respected wine critic and journalist in the world’, Ms Robinson writes daily for JancisRobinson.com (voted first-ever Wine Website of the Year in the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers Awards 2010), weekly for The Financial Times, and bi-monthly for a column that is syndicated around the world.
She is also editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine (4th edition to be published September 2015), co-author with Hugh Johnson of The World Atlas of Wine and co-author of Wine Grapes – each of these books recognised as a standard reference worldwide.
An award-winning TV presenter, she travels all over the world to conduct wine events and act as a wine judge. In 1984 she was the first person outside the wine trade to pass the rigorous Master of Wine exams and in 2003 she was awarded an OBE by Her Majesty the Queen, on whose cellar she now advises.
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