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New Member: Leona De Pasquale

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Leona De Pasquale is a London-based Taiwanese freelance wine writer, translator and WSET Certified Educator. She writes for Wine & Spirits Digest, the most influential wine and spirits magazine in Taiwan and is the wine correspondent for The Vintage Magazine in the UK. She has written and translated articles for Decanter and Le Pan, and her translation works include some of the most authori...
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Fior d’Arancio: a case for terroir Muscat?

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New Member: Janet Z Wang

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Janet Z Wang is the author of The Chinese Wine Renaissance and contributor to Decanter China. She has also consulted on wine-related start-up ideas. Janet spent her formative years in China before immigrating to the UK as a teenager. From her education in Chinese history and classics since an early age, she noted that wine's social effects on humanity were profound and continuous. After graduatin...
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Tiny Távora e Varosa turning out top sparklers

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Staggering numbers build the prosecco revolution

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Steve Pryer visits Italy to explore the facts, figures and reasons why the tsunami of easy-drinking, affordable Italian sparkling wine has changed the drinking habits of many Britons.  Prosecco has been the UK’s bubbly sensation of recent years. Despite some recent reports of a slow-down in sales, the UK remains one of biggest buyers of this Italian sparkler, purchasing more than one-third of all...
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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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