Julia Harding MW Editor

Jancis Robinson OBE MW, founding editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine, is one of the world's leading authorities on wine. The first person outside the wine trade to have passed the notoriously tough Master of Wine exams, she now writes weekly for the Financial Times and daily for JancisRobinson.com, which has members all over the world. Voted the first-ever International Wine Communicator of the Year in 1996, she has won multiple awards and written many books. Most recently she wrote The 24-Hour Wine Expert (2017), co-wrote The World Atlas of Wine (8th edn, 2019), Wine Grapes (2012), and hosted the BBC Maestro online wine course An Understanding of Wine. Julia Harding MW, editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine, studied modern languages at Cambridge before becoming a freelance book editor. She qualified as a Master of Wine in 2004, winning the Robert Mondavi award for best theory papers and the Tim Derouet Memorial Prize for excellence in all parts of the exam and dissertation. She is Senior Editor at JancisRobinson.com, where she has been a member of the team since 2005. She is cartographic editor of The World Atlas of Wine (8th edn, 2019) and co-author of Wine Grapes (2012). Tara Q. Thomas, assistant editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine, is the former Executive Editor of Wine & Spirits Magazine in New York. She has worked in the wine industry for 25 years, as a writer, editor, wine judge, and educator and is now Managing Editor of JancisRobinson.com. She has also been the wine editor for the Denver Post; a columnist for Culture and Real Food, a contributor to the Oxford Companions to both Spirits & Cocktails and to Cheese, and authored The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wine Basics.