Women and Wine - A Tipping Point

EXCERPT: By Jancis Robinson - I have often been asked what life has been like for me as a woman in what has traditionally been seen as a man’s world... 

I have often been asked what life has been like for me as a woman in what has traditionally been seen as a man’s world. In one word: cushy.

I remember once in the early 1980s being asked patronisingly at a (non-professional) wine tasting, ‘I say, do you come to these things to taste for your boss?’ When I started out as a wine-trade writer in the late 1970s I was conscious of a few looks exchanged between old hands in the wine trade at my hippie clothes and hair. And I remember the late Michael Broadbent of Christie’s complaining that I was a ‘a bit women’s lib’. 

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