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The value of elegance
Meet the Member: Marisa Finetti
Marisa Finetti was born in Tokyo although raised in San Francisco, where she developed a career as a journalist and in the television industry before she quit the city lifestyle to become a grape grower in Sonoma for a decade. Today she is a wine writer and illustrator, based in Las Vegas. Amanda Barnes interviews Marisa for our Meet the Member feature and learns how sticky boots taught Marisa abo...
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Congratulations to Amanda Barnes and Jasper Morris MW on winning the André Simon Awards 2021
Keith Grainger shares news of two Circle members taking home the prestigious wine book awards in André Simon Awards earlier this month.
Let’s give hearty congratulations to Circle members Jasper Morris MW, and Amanda Barnes for their success in the 2021 André Simon Awards. The results of this prestigious competition were announced at virtual ‘Zoom’ Ceremony, which was held on 8th March 2022. T...
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Exploring Quintessa’s Napa terroir
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Volcanic island imbibing
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Meet the Member: Mick Rock
Mick Rock has been photographing wine for three decades and is one of the wine industry's most important sources for wine photography with his company Cephas. Amanda Barnes interviews him to find out about some of his early adventures in wine (including covering 10,000 miles in seven weeks in a 4x4) and his plans for the future — which include one very special butterfly.
What's your earliest mem...
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Ukrainian wineries trade wine for weapons
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Compact, classy and complex Collio
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Meet the Member: Moshe Cohen
Moshe Cohen is a wine communicator and podcast presenter based in England. Amanda Barnes interviews him on his favourite wine interviews and asks for tips on Israeli wine, as well as finding out why two wheels and a corkscrew are his favourite holiday companions. Moshe recently presented a CWW seminar based on Israeli wine which is streamable on our YouTube channel.
Tell me about your first...
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Bordeaux’s accessible classification
Richard Lane laps up wines from two contrasting vintages of Les crus Bourgeois – the hot, volumptuous 2018 and the cooler, tauter 2019.
One thing that always ties me up in knots is Bordeaux’s various classification systems. Don’t get me started on the Saint-Emilion classification, and I cannot honestly say I have had the opportunity to taste many of the class growths of the 1855 classification; b...
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