Amanda Barnes, Author at Circle of Wine Writers

New Member: Neil Cammies

Posted on September 6, 2020September 6, 2020 by Amanda Barnes

Neil Cammies has written a wine column, initially in the South Wales Echo, then the Western Mail for 21 years. He has hosted tastings for local businesses, Welsh Cheese Festival and various food festivals including Newport and Abergavenny. He also writes food features focussing on the great ingredients and stellar chefs currently working in Wales today, including Stephen Terry, Shaun Hill and G...

Meet the Friend: Anita Jackson, Wines of Chile

Posted on September 6, 2020September 9, 2020 by Anita Jackson

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James Halliday moves from tasting to new technology

Posted on September 6, 2020September 6, 2020 by Amanda Barnes

Circle member and esteemed Australian wine writer James Halliday is taking a step back from some of his tasting duties at renowned publication, the Halliday Wine Companion, in order to focus on initiatives to support the wine industry and lead innovation in response to the increasing threats of drought and bushfire, as well as the impact of Covid 19 on the wine industry. James will guide the de...

New Member: Darren Gall

Posted on September 6, 2020September 9, 2020 by Darren Gall

Darren Gall has worked in the wine industry for three decades as winemaker, grape grower, brand and market developer, writer and judge. He has lived and worked in the wine regions of Coonawarra, McLaren Vale and Margaret River and has travelled the world as an ambassador for wine. Darren began exporting to Asia a quarter of a century ago and has lived in the region since 2001, developing markets ...

Bükk buckles down

Posted on September 6, 2020September 9, 2020 by Robert Smyth

Robert Smyth finally frees the shackles of lockdown on his first post-Covid wine trip, and finds winemaking momentum building in the mountains around Miskolc, in north-eastern Hungary. A version of this article earlier appeared in the Budapest Business Journal. It was a welcome change to return to Hungarian wine country in June, to witness a barely-known cum less prestigious wine region take stri...

New member: Moshé Cohen

Posted on September 6, 2020September 6, 2020 by Moshé Cohen

A wine blogger and a producer of his www.InTheVineyardWith.com Wine Podcast, Moshé began writing about wine in 1996, with a weekly wine column for the Israeli financial magazine Globes. Moshé has also contributed wine articles to the Gastronomic magazine Al-Hashulhan and appeared as a guest contributor for Purple Pages and The Wine Beat. He is an Associate Judge on the IWC. We welc...

Promise amongst the peaks and the pumice

Posted on September 6, 2020September 9, 2020 by Wink Lorch

Continuing on from her introductory article in August’s Circular on the Côtes d’Auvergne region in the Puy de Dôme department, within the volcanic part of France’s Massif Central, Wink Lorch visits producers big and small, and finds plenty of potential in the region that has altitude and ash to its advantage. With only about 400 hectares (ha), Côtes d’Auvergne inspired me to think once again abou...

What can I still afford to drink?

Posted on August 28, 2020September 9, 2020 by Neal D. Hulkower

Gallery: England’s vineyards from the sky by Mick Rock

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Mick Rock

Mick Rock started photographing the British wine industry in 1985. Now, with a drone, he has have set himself a project to reveal the beauty and uniqueness of our British vineyards from a new angle. Many images are stitched from several frames to showcase our landscapes in a way which a single frame (or even video) cannot. Mick started this project in September 2019, after gaining his CAA PfCO (Pe...

Let’s talk about self-publishing

Posted on August 9, 2020August 12, 2020 by Amanda Barnes