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Hashing out Neszmély
Amanda Barnes wins Fortnum & Mason Award for Debut Drink Book
In a star-studded awards evening, Circle Member Amanda Barnes won the Fortnum & Mason Award for Debut Drinks Book for The South America Wine Guide.
Celebrating the tenth year of the annual Food & Drinks Awards, the event held on 12th May championed some of the UK's leading and emerging voices in food and drinks communication.
Circle Member Billy Abbott was also nominated for the Debu...
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Jon Wyand wins Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year
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
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
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
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
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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Wine and the world’s changing climate
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Tasting Canada from coast to coast
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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