A wine communicator with an international reputation and 50 years’ experience, Jancis Robinson writes daily for JancisRobinson.com and weekly for The Financial Times. She is also founder-editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine; co-author with Hugh Johnson and Julia Harding MW of The World Atlas of Wine; and co-author with Dr José Vouillamoz and Julia Harding MW of Wine Grapes, each of these books recognized as a standard reference worldwide. In 1984 she was the first person outside the wine trade to pass the Master of Wine exams and in 2003 she was awarded an OBE by Her Majesty the Queen, on whose cellar she subsequently advised.

In 2021 she became a trustee of the Gérard Basset Foundation designed to increase diversity and inclusion in the worlds of wine, spirits and hospitality though education, and in 2025 became Patron of the Regenerative Viticulture Foundation, having campaigned for sustainability issues since 2006. She is also a patron of The Drinks Trust.

She has been awarded two Lifetime Achievement Awards – once from the IWSC in 2018 and another from the Institute of Masters of Wine in 2024 – and is an Honorary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford where she took a degree in Maths and Philosophy in 1971.