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Raymond Blake set to publish Wine Talk

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Raymond Blake is set to have his latest book, Wine Talk, published early next year by Skyhorse in New York. Raymond Blake is one of Ireland’s leading wine writers, whose work appears in numerous magazines across the globe, including The World of Fine Wine. Recently he has also established a strong online presence, presenting wine tasting webinars to audiences in four continents, as well as priv...
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New Member: William F. O’Connor

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William F. O’Connor, Ed.D, is a longtime resident of Japan, where he served on the faculty of Asia University for more than three decades and currently holds the title “Professor Emeritus.” He is the author of numerous publications on topics ranging from English-language education to political propaganda and is the co-author of the book Drinking Japan: It’s Not Just Sake. His blog drinkingjapan.o...
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Billy Abbott publishes The Philisophy of Whisky

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Philosophy of whisky
Billy Abbott has published The Philosophy of Whisky, a book taking 'a short look at the history of whisky and how it’s drunk today'. The book is accompanied by illustrations from the British Library archives and includes, according to Abbott, "one invocation of irony, lots of realisation that the English were complete gits in the past, and one severed digit". It was recently reviewed by Club...
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Meet the Friend: Alan Aboud, FONDATA

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Alan Aboud is the creative director of Fine and Rare's new FONDATA publication (which features Member Jancis Robinson MW on the cover in its first edition). In this Meet the Friend interview, Amanda Barnes finds out how the fine wine market has changed during the pandemic, the concept of a 'journal of adjacencies' and why moving from Black Tower to Meursault has been great for his palate but not h...
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Let’s talk about Criolla, South America’s native grape varieties, with Amanda Barnes

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Wink Lorch tastes and tours through the Criolla grape varieties and wine regions of South America during Amanda Barnes' Let's talk about Criolla webinar earlier this year.  There was something intoxicating about this hour, and it wasn’t only that I was one of the lucky ones to receive three wines to taste. “Crrree-oy-ya” intoned Amanda, a fluent South American Spanish speaker, who really knows h...
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Conducting an orchestra of sparkling wine

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Amanda Barnes finds herself in awe at Corinne Seely’s ability to craft a Blanc de Blancs blend from a large ensemble of reserve wines at Exton Park. “Do you have a big black book in which you write this all down?” I asked Corinne Seely in awe as she started to detail the hundreds of tanks, barrels and vats of reserve wines she keeps to hand to make her reserve blend sparkling wines at Exton Park....
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