Amanda Barnes, Author at Circle of Wine Writers

Meet the Member: Stephen Skelton MW

Posted on March 8, 2021March 9, 2021 by Amanda Barnes

Stephen Skelton MW interview for Circle of Wine writers

Stephen Skelton MW is one of the best-known authors of viticulture with his renowned and best-selling book, Viticulture. However, his knowledge and love of wine far surpass the vineyard, as Amanda Barnes finds out in this interview, in which Stephen shares his insights into making English wine, vineyard dogs and Japanese Ladybugs. You had an interesting route into the wine industry as an English...

Meet the Friend: Dawn Davies MW, The Whisky Exchange

Posted on March 8, 2021March 9, 2021 by Amanda Barnes

Dawn Davies MW The Whisky Exchange interview for Circle of Wine Writers

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Golden Vines Awards & Gerard Basset Foundation launch diversity scholarships for wine trade

Posted on March 4, 2021 by Amanda Barnes

Golden Vines Awards launches diversity scholarships for wine trade

A new awards ceremony, Golden Vines Awards, is set to celebrate ‘star performers in the fine wine industry’ as well as raise money for diversity scholarships and inclusion-oriented wine education programmes through The Gerard Basset Wine Education Charitable Foundation. The Awards is being organised by Liquid Icons, a fine wine research and production company which was founded by the late Gerard ...

Foot trodden wine and talhas in Alentejo: Simon J Woolf and Ryan Opaz kickstart their new book

Posted on February 26, 2021February 28, 2021 by Simon J Woolf

Exploring the foot trodden and handmade wines of Portugal, Simon J Woolf and Ryan Opaz's new book, Foot Trodden, is being funded and brought to life through a Kickstarter campaign which is live now. In this extract, Simon explores the wines of the Alentejo region in southern Portugal, and, in particular, those that are made in talha clay pots. The best way to understand Alentejo’s stron...

The good, the bad and the ugly: Wine book publishing

Posted on February 8, 2021February 9, 2021 by Simon J Woolf

The story of English wine moves on…

Posted on February 6, 2021February 9, 2021 by Amanda Barnes

Not UK wine, not English wine but Sussex wine – that's the uniquely specific subject of the latest book to focus on a fine modern product that now puts Britain firmly among the world's serious wine nations. Sussex by the Glass: Wines, vines and two pioneering families, by Circle member Liz Sagues, will be published on March 8. The choice of International Women's Day for the launch is deliberate...

Meet the Member: Megumi Nishida

Posted on February 6, 2021February 9, 2021 by Megumi Nishida

Megumi Nishida has been working in wine in Japan since the 1990s and in this Meet the Member interview, Amanda Barnes finds out how the wine industry has evolved there over this time. Megumi also shares why she has always been a fan of Alsace, her views on Japanese wine, and leaves us with a thought-provoking wine Haiku. What's your earliest memory in wine? My mother was born in Yamanash...

Un coup de pied dans la derrière: Steven Spurrier’s famed Judgement of Paris

Posted on February 6, 2021 by Steven Spurrier

Jo Burzynska achieves PhD for ‘Tuning Sensory Terroir’

Posted on February 6, 2021 by Amanda Barnes

Dr Jo Burzynska has now completed and been awarded a PhD, for her thesis entitled: Tuning Sensory Terroir: Mapping correspondences between sound and wine. This was a creative and empirical investigation of crossmodal correspondences - the systematic association of sensory features from different modalities - which identified a number of correspondences between sonic/musical properties and wine ...

Atlantic wines & The wines of Portugal

Posted on February 6, 2021February 9, 2021 by Richard Mayson