Â鶹Éç

Uncork a bottle, reveal a person…

Jancis Robinson recommends wine to former rugby player and wine connoisseur Brian Moore.

In this series Jancis Robinson is on a festive mission to recommend wines to famous guests. After all, wines are a bit like people really. Some are bold and fruity, some elegant and refined; you’ll get aging smoothies and sharp young things. But what do you recommend to a man who was nicknamed 'Pitbull' - famously aggressive on the rugby field, but also a sophisticated debater and a trained manicurist?

Jancis aims to find bottles that match or reveal things about Brian's public persona but also his more secretive, private self. What follows is a lively conversation about wine and personality – about a person’s taste, their passions and opinions. On the way we’ll learn a lot about wine - about tasting, and style, about balance, acid and tannin; about winemaking and winemakers. It's a conversational masterclass from one of our foremost wine writers. But more than that – the open bottle starts up conversations about people's lives and opinions on all sorts of things. We’ll find ourselves asking what our own taste in wine might reveal. Open up a bottle and you’ll open up a person.

Brian and Jancis were drinking...

Cellier de St-Jean Vacqueras 2016 (14.5%) £8.99 - "Tannic, really substantial, very good vintage in the Rhone. Bottled in Beaujolais."

Domaine Chapel Julienas 2017 (14%) £25 - "Gloriously subtle, representing the Beaujolais revolution."

Campbell's Rutherglen Muscat (17.5%) £12.99 for a half bottle - "Australian Strong and sweet speciality made nowhere else in the world - very Christmassy."

Produced in Bristol by James Cook and Melvin Rickarby.

Show less