UNITED KINGDOM
Senior Editor, JancisRobinson.com
Julia Harding is a distinguished wine writer, editor, and Master of Wine, renowned for her expertise and attention to detail. With a Cambridge degree in Modern Languages, she initially worked as an academic book editor before her fascination with wine led her to a second career in wine writing.
In 2004, she became a Master of Wine, passing first time and winning the Robert Mondavi Award for top theory papers, a distinction for her dissertation and the Tim Derouet Memorial Prize for overall excellence. For over 20 years, she has been Jancis Robinson’s senior editor at JancisRobinson.com.
Julia co-authored Wine Grapes (2012), edited the maps for The World Atlas of Wine (7th 8th and 9th editions), and was lead editor for the one-million-word 5th edition of The Oxford Companion to Wine (2023).
She has received numerous accolades for her writing, including the Masters of Wine Noval Award for Excellence in Communication (2007); the Chairman’s Award in the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers’ Awards (2009); Portuguese Wine Writer of the Year (2012); James Beard Award (2012); Wines of Portugal Personality of 2022; and winner of the 67 Global Wine Communicator award for long-form writing 2025.
Based in London, she travels widely, tastes extensively, and guards her physical and mental well-being through rigorous outdoor exercise.
I am looking forward to seeing the changes and progress since my last visit to New Zealand in 2016 and I’m particularly keen to learn more about Aotearoa’s unsung star, Chardonnay, discovering what makes it great, what makes it distinctive, and meeting its producers.
