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Meet the Member: Mike Turner
Age like a fine Spanish vine
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Book review – Amber Revolution: How the world learned to love orange wine
Everyone remembers the first time they tried orange wine. It’s a revelation for most wine drinkers, who are typically used to just three colours of wine – white, pink and red. Some of us go on to hunt down many more orange wines in our vinous futures, and others adamantly avoid ever repeating the experience.
For Simon Woolf, that magic moment came in a cellar in Trieste in 2011. A moment on the ...
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Meet the Friend: Sophie Jump
Sophie Jump runs her energetic wine PR company, Jump Start Wine Solutions, in the UK organising events and wine trips, as well as helping international wine producers break into the UK wine scene. When she isn't working in wine, you might find her chasing rugby around the globe. Amanda Barnes interviews Sophie about her pathway into wine and what she's working on now.
How did you deve...
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New Member: Billy Abbott
Billy Abbott is a London-based drinks writer with a focus on whisky, fine spirits and beer. Formerly a computer programmer in the finance industry, he jumped into the world of writing full time in 2011.
By day, Billy works for The Whisky Exchange, writing, blogging, managing online communities, leading the internal training program and acting as the company's whisky ambassador. The rest of the ...
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Atypical ageing slips under the radar
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Dry Asti, Barbera, a new DOCG and the Brachetto beyond
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Meet the Member: Neville Blech
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The Chinese Wine Renaissance: A wine lover’s companion
Amanda Barnes reviews Janet Z Wang's new book The Chinese Wine Renaissance: A Wine Lover's Companion.
Chinese wine still feels like a relatively 'new' phenomena in the wine world, but Janet Z Wang is out to set the record straight. Wang makes it very clear within the first few pages of her book that wine is very much part of the culture of Ancient China, and spends the following chapters detail...
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A brief history of grape wine in China
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