Jancis Robinson, one of the world's best-known wine writers, has pledged her support against the construction of a shopping mall on prime vineyard land in South Australia's McLaren Vale. Joining the campaign to fight a proposal to build a retail and housing development at Seaford Heights, McLaren Vale, Robinson wrote an open letter to South Australia's Minister for Planning, Paul Holloway.In it she called for the development to be disallowed and to 'establish a set of effective preservation regulations such as have been so effective in wine regions such as the Napa Valley.'