"The world's most informed and accomplished expert on the wines of Bordeaux"
Jane Anson
Jane Anson has lived in Bordeaux since 2003 and is author of Inside Bordeaux (BB&R Press 2020, called a ‘category buster’ by Wine Anorak and ‘the Bordeaux bible’ by Le Figaro), Haut-Bailly (First Press Editions 2021), Wine Revolution (Quarto 2017), The Club of Nine (Katz Publishing 2016) Angélus (Editions de la Martiniere, 2016) and Bordeaux Legends, a history of the 1855 First Growth wines (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2013, and re-released as an NFT ebook in 2022), as well as co-author or translator of over a dozen wine and travel books. She also became, in 2021, the only journalist to taste a bottle of Petrus that had spent 14 months circumnavigating the earth on the International Space Station.
She has won several awards for her writing, including Louis Roederer Wine Online Communicator of the Year 2020, and Born Digital Best Editorial 2020. She is also winner of the IWSC 2023 Wine Communicator Trophy.
Jane was the first woman to deliver the André Simon lecture for the International Wine and Food Society since the lecture series began in 1971, speaking in June 2020 on the subject of terroir in Bordeaux. After almost 20 years as Bordeaux correspondent and columnist for Decanter magazine, she has now launched her own website.
She is a graduate of the DUAD tasting diploma with the Bordeaux Institute of Oenology and an accredited wine teacher at the Bordeaux Ecole du Vin.
JANE ANSON
The Location
Located in southwest France close to the Atlantic Ocean, Bordeaux is the largest appellation controlée (AOC) region in France, extending 213km north to south and 105km east to west.
With 65 appellations, the vineyard of Bordeaux starts from just a few metres above sea level and climbs to around 130m in altitude. The region is dominated by two major rivers, the Garonne and the Dordogne, that combine to form the Gironde Estuary, which runs for 75km before emptying into the Atlantic.
Left Bank Bordeaux is everything to the west of the Garonne river and the Gironde Estuary, on the ocean side, but confusingly Right Bank Bordeaux is not everything to its east. Instead, strictly speaking, the Right Bank takes its name from the land stretching northwards from the Dordogne and eastwards from the Gironde Estuary, so Bourg, Blaye and the Libournais – while the area that stretches between the two rivers is Entre-deux-Mers.
Insider Knowledge
A site that is dedicated to Bordeaux – one of the world’s greatest wine regions and the centre of so much of the global wine trade – is long overdue.
My aim for you as subscribers to Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux is to have access to regular reports on Bordeaux wines, and all wines that go through the Place de Bordeaux – from the Bordeaux First Growths to the best biodynamic newcomers, to Opus One, Inglenook, Masseto and more. These will take the form of En Primeur reports, in Bottle reports, Ten Years On tastings, September Release reports, plus regular estate verticals and profiles – with a constant emphasis on provenance, on highlighting the best wines to open now, and sharing insider secrets of the names and vintages to look out for.
I will be sharing my expertise in the terroirs of Bordeaux, helping you unlock secrets to the region and giving you shortcuts to finding the best wines while highlighting new names and properties. I am also working with partners to ensure you have access to a variety of formats in which to enjoy wine content – so brilliant podcasts with The Wine Conversation (many of which will be exclusive to subscribers for a limited time) and video content from 67 Pall Mall TV.
I want you to feel you are receiving real world benefits by taking up a membership with JAIB, which is why I am launching two Bordeaux immersion weeks per year – and both weeks will always be opened to subscribers first. The first of these will be a free Mentor Week that will be aimed at encouraging diversity and countering the often-closed nature of the Bordeaux wine trade, and anyone who is a subscriber will be able to either apply, or to nominate somebody in their team. A behind the scenes immersion week with unrivalled access to the very best names in Bordeaux will also be offered on a yearly basis, beginning June 2022. More details on these coming up.
From the very start, 1% of all subscription revenue (not just profits) will be going to One Percent for the Planet, a charity that represents a global network of organisations tackling our world’s most pressing environmental issues.
Inside Bordeaux
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WHY
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Access to Tasting Notes, Reports, Podcasts and search of the entire wine database. A personalised account area where you can add wines on the website to 'Your Cellar' for quick reference, plus other subscriber benefits such as exclusive trips to the region. Only €110 a year, no hidden fees...
