The Wine Hour #27 - Jane Anson, www.janeanson.com, Bordeaux, France

Join the Wine Dream Team, Jaime Araujo, Tanisha Townsend, and Akos Forzcek along with the Host, Antoine Abou-Samra for The Wine Hour.

We have the pleasure to welcome Jane Anson, www.janeanson.com, Bordeaux, France.

PROGRAM
Introduction [0:00]: Show opening with Antoine’s Abou-Samra introduction “A Humbling Year”, and the cast introduction.

Uncorked [7:19]: Jaime Araujo and Ray Isle share their best holiday season wine experiences and their trend forecasts for 2023.

Licensed To Taste [38:55]: Tanisha Townsend explains the wines of Alba and Asti and shares the outcome of your 2022 New Year’s resolutions in the Wine Minute.

Have A Drink With Me [50:02]: Antoine Abou-Samra has a conversation with Jane Anson about her journey, how she got into, the people that supported her, the start of janeanson.com, the book Inside Bordeaux , and much more. A wonderful conversation 😍.

SPECIAL GUEST BIO
Jane is the founder of www.janeanson.com, a site that she launched in October 2021 after leaving Decanter magazine, where she was longtime Bordeaux correspondent. Recipient of the IWSC 2023 Wine Communicator Trophy, Jane is author of Inside Bordeaux (called the 'Bordeaux bible' by Le Figaro), Wine Revolution, The Club of Nine, Angélus and Bordeaux Legends, a history of the 1855 First Growth Wines.

She has won many awards for her writing, is a graduate of the DUAD tasting diploma with the Bordeaux Institute of Oenology, an accredited wine teacher at the Bordeaux Ecole du Vin and co-founder of the Bordeaux Mentor Week (inaugural edition held in September 2022) aimed at opening up diversity and access in the world of wine. She was the first woman to give the André Simon lecture for the International Wine and Food Society since the lecture series began in 1971, speaking on the subject of Bordeaux terroir in June 2020.

There is an accompanying playlist with the show (selected by the guest). It can be found here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0yu0t9q0uAxHKl6Oexihi9?si=de7d2c924e5c4061

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