Jancis Robinson's Wine Course: 5 DVD Boxed Set

Disc 1 - Introduction and Chardonnay
Start your journey with by examining the range of the winemaking experience. Highlights include:

How to taste wine - and why the nose reigns supreme

How wine is made - grape stomping as dangerous sport

The Fast-changing world of wine. See how Australian wine producers are changing the rules of the game.

Soul, wine and tradition in Burgundy with Dominique Lafon.

How Chardonnay is taking over the world - dining in San Francisco.

The magic of oak - how barrels, and fortunes, are made.

Disc 2 - Cabernet Sauvignon And Sauvignon Blanc
Examine the historic wine trade of Bordeaux, which is one of the world's most stratified. Then compare the traditional growers of Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume and New Zealand's resourceful, opportunistic Sauvignon Blanc growers. Highlights include:

Starting your own wine cellar - (and a peek at Baroness Phillipine de Rothschild's)

Chateau Country - the Medoc and the Bordeaux wine trade

Dining at Chateau Margaux

Flying winemakers, the men who follow the sun to make wine all over the world.

Chile - dynamic new Cabernet Sauvignon producer

What is appellation controlee - straightjacket or sales aid?

Didier Dagueneau, the wild man of Pouilly-Fume

The new Klondike, Marlborough in New Zealand

Disc 3 - Syrah, Shiraz And Riesling
In this program, meet Marcel Guigal and see why people will go to extraordinary lengths to buy wines from his three tiny vineyards. Highlights include:

What's wrong with corks - is your corkscrew really necessary?

Marcel Guigal, who makes Cote-Roties people will kill for.

The Rhone Raiders of California - is Syrah the next grape of the West?

The world's most underestimated grape - the breathtaking Mosel Valley

Notable rot and the world's greatest sweet wines - bundles of ash or liquid gold?

Scoring wines - behind the scenes with Australia's omnipotent wine judges

The Austrian anti-freeze scandal - and beyond

Disc 4 - Pinot Noir And Merlot
In this program, consider whether wine expresses a particular spot on the globe, what the French call terroir, or the ambitions and capabilities of the people who made it. Then visit the Napa Valley, where paradise on earth is under threat, as a result of a tiny louse. Highlights include:

Wine and Health - how wine can do you good.

The king, queen and pope of Vosne-Romanee Domaine de Romanee-Conti, Lalou Bize-Leroy and Henri Jayner in the heart of Burgundy

Oregon Pinot Noir - beating Burgundians at their own game?

Organic wine, hocus pocus or the future of the planet

Phylloxera - the louse that's eating California's vineyards

Wine production as the ultimate personalized farming

Disc 5 - Fizz and the Grape Invaders
In this program you'll enjoy champagne! Why does the mixture of gas and wine spell celebration? Highlights include:

How the bubbles get into champagne - tried and tested methods, and techniques too hot to handle!

Opening a champagne bottle the safe way

Spain's hot new wine Pesquera and the self-made mechanic's neighbors in Ribera del Duero.

Seeking out weird and wonderful varietals, the bard of Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz

The young genius who's putting fizz into bottles in four continents.

Epernay - a town built on bubbles - selling a dream.

The magic of Barolo, Barbaresco and truffles - Piedmont in Northern Italy.