Andrew Jefford
Andrew Jefford has written for Decanter magazine since 1988. His monthly magazine column is widely followed, and he also writes occasional features and profiles both for the magazine and for Decanter.com. He has won many awards for his work, including eight Louis Roederer Awards and eight Glenfiddich Awards. He was Regional Chair for Regional France and Languedoc-Rossillon at the inaugural Decanter World Wine Awards in 2004, and has judged in every edition of the competition since, becoming a Co-Chair in 2018. After a year as a senior research fellow at Adelaide University between 2009 and 2010, Jefford moved with his family to the Languedoc, close to Pic St-Loup. He also acts as academic advisor to The Wine Scholar Guild.
Roederer awards 2016: International Wine Columnist of the Year
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Jefford on Monday: Old Dominion Classics
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Jefford on Monday: Change is coming
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Jefford on Monday: A chat with Philippe
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Jefford on Monday: Grange meets La Niña
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Jefford on Monday: She does what she wants
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Jefford on Monday: Faithful to the season
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Jefford on Monday: Journey into forbidden territory
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Jefford on Monday: Underground terroir - Ardeche wines
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Jefford on Monday: Wine in China on our minds
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Jefford on Monday: Rebel harvest
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Jefford: Raventos i Blanc tasting
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Jefford on Monday: Burgundy wine harvest - is 2015 a great year?
In this week's column, Andrew Jefford reports on the Burgundy wine harvest for 2015.
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Jefford: A taste of Bichot
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Jefford on Monday: L'Eglise Clinet tasting with Denis Durantou
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Jefford on Monday: New Zealand Pinot Noir finds fans in France
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How to write wine tasting notes
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Jefford on Monday: Tasting notes - the shame of the wine world?
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Jefford on Monday: Up The Steep Hill
I've never, alas, tasted an Araujo Estate Cabernet Sauvignon grown in the Eisele Vineyard. My newly acquired enthusiasm for great Napa Cabernet, though, suggests that I'd like it a lot. What was 'the undisclosed sum' paid by the Pinault family in late July to bring Araujo into the Latour stable? No one knows quite which two digits preceded the million dollar abbreviation. (Or were there, even, three?) The colossal disparity in land values, though, between Napa Cabernet vineyard and those of Coonawarra, Margaret River, or indeed any other location in the 'New World', is remarkable, and merits reflection by landowners in those other key Cabernet regions.
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Jefford on Monday: Mud Wrestling with the Bourguignons
Did you realise that, with every glass of Meursault and Montrachet, you are drinking wine faeces? No, nor did I. This sobering insight came my way back in March, when I sat down one evening to talk at length to soil consultants Claude and Lydia Bourguignon.
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Jefford on Monday: The 104-Point Second Wine
Scores for wines are philosophically untenable, aesthetically noxious – but have great practical value. Wine scores will, therefore, be with us for as long as human beings drink wine. A shockingly beautiful recent bottle made me think about a little-discussed aspect of this analytical tool.
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Jefford: Six De Wetshof wines to drink
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Jefford on Monday: Dirt, Time and Terroir
The most significant revolution I’ve seen in the wine world over the last quarter century has nothing to do with micro-oxygenation, 100-point scores or screwcaps.
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Jefford on Monday: The two million bottle bet – and beyond
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Jefford on Monday: That’s the way to do it
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Jefford on Monday: The time test
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Jefford on Monday: Fishing the shallows
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Jefford on Monday: Secrets of the Quilt
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Jefford on Monday: The President and the Montravel Bomb
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Jefford on Monday: Where do we go from here?