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Janet Z Wang launches The Chinese Wine Renaissance

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A fine Anglo-French affair: the creation of Champagne

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Review: The Three Drinkers Do Scotch

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Mike Turner reviews a new web series by three of members of the Circle - Colin Hampden-White, Helena Nicklin and Adrian Smith - and finds fun, friendship and whisky-related capers. The Circle of Wine Writers has some of the famous faces of the wine trade on their roster. It was a genuinely proud moment when I was accepted to the Circle for what I considered to be my meagre, poorly spelt rantings ...
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Wine Australia launches new education programme

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Growing pains: English sparkling wine

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Meet the Friend: Keith Isaac MW, Castelnau Wine Agencies

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For this month's Meet the Friend feature, we meet Keith Isaac MW, General Manager of Castelnau Wine Agencies. Keith became an MW in 1989 and served as Chairman of the Examination Panel from 1998 to 2007. He joined Castelnau Wine Agencies in 1987, known then as Patriarche Wine Agencies, and has been General Manager since 1996. Castelnau Wine Agencies, owned by Champagne Castelnau in Reims, has more...
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Meet the Member: Bob Campbell MW

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Bob Campbell MW
Bob Campbell MW is an authority on the wines of New Zealand and was the second wine writer in the world to become a Master of Wine (following fellow member Jancis Robinson MW). Far from being a wine snob, Bob is known for his inclusive and jovial writing style and is committed to enthusing a new generation of wine drinkers through his highly-respected wine courses and seminars. He writes extensive...
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New Member: Sherwin Lao

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Sherwin Lao was introduced to the world of wine when he was hired by a huge Californian winery in the mid-1990s to take charge of the on-premise marketing of the winery- at first in Southeast Asia, and eventually for the much larger Asia-Pacific region. After leaving the Californian winery in the tail-end of the 1990s, Sherwin continued to do regional wine related work, mostly with Spanish winerie...
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