Author: Amanda Barnes

Samantha Cole-Johnson left restaurants to pursue what she thought would be a brief harvest internship. One vintage turned into three, with plans for another on the horizon. She enjoys traveling, working with cultivars that are new to her, writing about cellar work for jancisrobinson.com, and making enough international friends that she never has to stay in a hotel. She received her diploma from...

Sarah Phillips started working in the London wine trade in 2014 when she joined Liv-ex as a recent graduate. While in London, she was the primary analyst contributing to the Liv-ex wine market blog.  Sarah relocated to Miami, Florida, in January 2019 and continues to contribute to Liv-ex’s marketing effort on a freelance basis. She also teaches WSET classes at the Florida Wine Academy, writes a...

Based in British Columbia, Canada, Arnica Rowan writes for JancisRobinson.com. After placing runner-up in Jancis Robinson’s 2019 writing competition with an article on Ethiopian wine, Arnica continues to pursue her passion for obscure and place-based wine stories across the globe. For a decade, Arnica taught as a professor and conducted academic research in sustainable business practices. She n...

Ellen Wallace is an American-bred Swiss who lives high in the Alps. She is the author of the introductory book Vineglorious! Switzerland’s Wondrous World of Wines and she publishes an independent blog in English whose main focus is journeying through the landscape (wines, vineyards, people, history, culture) of Swiss wines, to make these more accessible to wine-lovers in Switzerland and outside th...