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Jon Wyand wins Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year 

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A beautiful shot, ‘Gathering prunings on Corton Hill’, by Jon Wyand, has won the prestigious Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year category of Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2022, the world’s leading celebration of food and wine photography and film. The photograph, taken early on a bright winter’s morning, captures an industrious worker gathering prunings at the Corton Les Bressand...
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New Member: Michael Pinkus

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Michael Pinkus is a multi-award-winning wine writer, national and international wine judge, educator, journalist, social-media content maker, host and co-creator of the podcast Two Guys Talking Wine. He is also former President of the Wine Writers’ Circe of Canada (2010-2015).  He has been called "a very knowledgeable and honest taster and writer"; "a passionate wine man with a sense of humor"; a...
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New Member: Elizabeth Smith

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Elizabeth Smith is a former community college professor of French and Spanish turned award-winning writer, copywriter, and journalist by way of a detour through the Napa Valley and Sonoma County wine industries. She is the lead product copywriter for Naked Wines USA, as well as a contributing wine, food, travel, and lifestyle journalist to Food, Wine, and Travel (FWT) Magazine, Napa Valley Lif...
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Meet the Friend: Sarah Hargreaves

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Sarah Hargreaves
Sarah Hargreaves specialises in PR and communications in southern France with her company In The Mood PR. She explains in this Meet the Friend interview how she developed her career there and why she finds the Languedoc-Roussillon one of the most fascinating regions to work with. Amanda Barnes also learns about Sarah’s favourite way to discover new wines and some the vineyard ambles that Sarah is ...
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Meet the Member: René Langdahl

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René Langdahl is wine writer, podcaster and educator in Denmark. In this interview, he tells Amanda Barnes why he never got that promised taste of DRC from his confirmation party, and why writing about wine for cash-strapped students was the start of his wine writing career. He also shares an insight into the post-pandemic wine world of Denmark and comments on the trends that excite him, including...
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Closing out cork taint

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corks
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Wine and the world’s changing climate 

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climate change
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Tasting Canada from coast to coast

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Canadian wine tasting
Amanda Barnes’ palate spans 4,000 kilometres in one tasting as she also feels the buzz in being back at a live event.  There’s a certain joy about seeing familiar faces again in person, isn’t there? After two years of physical separation, although with perhaps some virtual interaction, between most nations in the wine industry, the revival of in-person wine tastings and trade shows feels quite he...
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Meet the Friend: Paul Mabray, pix.wine

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Paul Mabray of Pix
Paul Mabray is one of the wine industry's foremost thinkers in bringing wine into the digital space. He has worked in important developments at wine.com, and founded vintank.com and winedirect.com, and today is focused on the development of pix.wine — a new wine discovery platform. Amanda Barnes interviews him as a new Friend of the Circle to find out what makes him tick, and how he envisions the ...
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Seeing the forest through the vines

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