Jancis Robinson
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Sep 17, 2026
Anna ThompsonGUEST
What is it that you like? Find your region or your grape and then splurge on the bottle that matches what you like for it to be like a special treat.
Anna ThompsonGUEST
Rather than just buying it blindly because it's well rated by Robert Parker, Jancis Robinson, which are huge wine influencers.
Anna ThompsonGUEST
Yeah.
Hannah TerryHOST
Yeah.
Gary VaynerchukGUEST
I built one of the largest wine retail stores in the country for my father.
Gary VaynerchukGUEST
I really hit the scene maybe when you guys both saw me with wine videos in the early 2000s on YouTube and, you know, started to have real credibility, no different than James Halliday or Robert Parker or Jancis Robinson as a wine critic for, from 2006 through 2011.
Gary VaynerchukGUEST
And then at the height of it, I kind of pivoted my career and went into being a Silicon Valley investor and a marketing and business personal brand and running a lot of businesses.
Gary VaynerchukGUEST
And that actually is when my wine journey got even more interesting, I would argue.
Patrick SchmittHOST
Today, we're exploring what artificial intelligence could mean for wine writing, and I'm delighted to be joined by one of the industry's most respected voices, Patrick Comiskey.
Patrick SchmittHOST
Now, Patrick spent more than 20 years at Wine & Spirits magazine, and today writes for publications including The Los Angeles Times and jancisrobinson.com.
Patrick SchmittHOST
Earlier this year, he joined a webinar I hosted on AI in the wine trade, where he raised several thought-provoking ideas that we simply didn't have time to explore in depth.
Patrick SchmittHOST
So I invited him onto this podcast to continue that conversation.
9 MINS LATER
Patrick ComiskeyGUEST
But the other thing, and I think this is much more important, and it's what I, it's what I discovered in my essay, but it's also kind of what's dis- what's I'm discovering in the, in my career at this late stage, [laughs] is that AI tells me where not to go.
Patrick ComiskeyGUEST
Um, AI frees me up to be another type of writer than I was before, uh, before the kinds of facts and figures that the wine business demands in, in things like tasting notes, uh, uh, was such a priority to me, and so, and so privileged as a piece of information.
Patrick ComiskeyGUEST
Um, just to take an example, I am writing a series of articles for jancisrobinson.com in which I am exploring and reporting on the westernmost vineyards in California, which is a thoroughly arbitrary, uh, uh, subject, but it's also a fascinating one.
Patrick ComiskeyGUEST
There's so much to say, and it doesn't...
Valerie CarusoHOST
The grape's name would be invoked again in writing 40 years later in commentary about wines from the Médoc region of Bordeaux.
Valerie CarusoHOST
From page 1541, Kindle edition of Wine Grapes, a complete guide to 1,368 vine varieties, including their origins and flavors, by Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding, and José Voyamos, which no cork dork should be without, the translation of a document particularly slapping the grapes' etymological origins down on the table is quoted thusly, and you don't want to hear my French reading of this.
Valerie CarusoHOST
So here it is in English.
Valerie CarusoHOST
The name Merlot was given to this variety because the blackbird likes this grape very much.
Jason WiseHOST
We're going to start with her and we're going to learn what he did for the industry and why some people have the opinions they may have about his palette and the wines that he liked.
Jason WiseHOST
And then we're going to speak with another master of wine, Jancis Robinson, who, in my opinion, could be the most famous wine critic alive today.
Jason WiseHOST
She was in Psalm 3 and is a friend, full disclosure.
Jason WiseHOST
And she is going to speak about Robert Parker from her perspective.
12 MINS LATER
Lisa Perrotti-BrownGUEST
And he's not afraid to say when he thinks someone else is doing consumers a disjustice or an injustice.
Jason WiseHOST
Now let's talk about Jancis.
Jason WiseHOST
Who is Jancis Robinson? And how has she affected the world of wine?
Lisa Perrotti-BrownGUEST
Jancis Robinson really kind of helped put women on the wine journalism map.
Randy MosherGUEST
It's better to have your own words for things.
Randy MosherGUEST
The wine writer Jancis Robinson says, You know, if a wine reminds you of fresh tennis balls, just go with that, you know, because you can figure out the right word later.
Randy MosherGUEST
That must
speaker_3GUEST
be why there's so many people in wine country that can't tell the difference between Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay.
Samantha Cole-JohnsonGUEST
Fell so in love with winemaking that I did five harvests.
Samantha Cole-JohnsonGUEST
And along the way, my second harvest, I started writing for JancisRobinson.com.
Samantha Cole-JohnsonGUEST
I had read Richard Hemming's journals on his harvest journals 11 years prior.
Samantha Cole-JohnsonGUEST
And I thought, man, I'd like to do that.
Samantha Cole-JohnsonGUEST
You get more information.
Jessica DupuyHOST
I mean, useful to you if you're studying, right? So for you personally, but I see what you mean.
Jessica DupuyHOST
The forum is on JancisRobinson.com and so everyone can kind of see what's going on there.
Samantha Cole-JohnsonGUEST
Yes.
Amanda ThomsonGUEST
We were in New York Times very early, and the wine critics there embraced us.
Amanda ThomsonGUEST
That said, um, jancisrobinson.com, the famous, um, one of the most famous women in the wine world, if not the most famous woman actually, to be fair.
Amanda ThomsonGUEST
Uh, Tanlyn Curren, um, who writes with Jancis, she was the first person really, um, a Brit actually, to embrace Naughty.
Amanda ThomsonGUEST
So we've had huge success early days from wine people who are influential, uh, both sides of the pond.
Dan KirbyHOST
Thank you.
Dan KirbyHOST
But we have Jancis Robinson on the show this week.
Dan KirbyHOST
Thank me later.
Brad HorneHOST
Enjoy this, guys.
18 MINS LATER
Jancis RobinsonGUEST
Maybe someone's got a video of them somewhere.
Jancis RobinsonGUEST
And then we did quite a bit of...
Jancis RobinsonGUEST
We did BBC Two series, Jancis Robinson's wine course around the world.
Jancis RobinsonGUEST
Do you think that might be the Jacques? Yes, I think it is.
Victoria WilkinHOST
So if somebody has a resilient attitude, they're much more psychologically flexible and able to turn a bad situation into a good situation.
Victoria WilkinHOST
And there's lots of examples out there of people who look on the bright side of life who think that there's always a lesson to be learned and dolly parton was a wonderful example of this somebody who was not driven by fear but was driven by the excitement and the enjoyment of the thing that she was doing and so maybe there's something in the way that people who are lucky actually end up creating their own luck and I think listening to Richard and hearing his story he certainly created his own luck by contacting Jancis Robinson in the first place and also applying for the Master of Wine course so our final question for this episode
Clint EastwoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
do I feel lucky well do you punk
Victoria WilkinHOST
A huge thank you to Richard Hemmick, Master of Wine, who gave up his time to come on this podcast and share his journey with us.
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