Highlights Archives - Page 17 of 26 - Circle of Wine Writers

Living it up at Livres en vignes

Posted on February 4, 2020February 7, 2020 by Jon Wyand

Jon Wyand shows what to expect on bringing out a wine book with a French publisher as he goes under a hedonistic house arrest at Château du Clos de Vougeot. One benefit of struggling through the production of a wine book with a French publisher is that you’ll probably be invited to Livres en Vignes, when it has been published. It’s a kind of house arrest at Château du Clos de Vougeot, where you s...

Sacredly steep Sacra

Posted on February 4, 2020February 7, 2020 by Amaya Cervera

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Minerality: fact or fiction?

Posted on February 3, 2020February 7, 2020 by Amanda Barnes

Meet the Member: Natalie MacLean

Posted on January 15, 2020January 19, 2020 by Amanda Barnes

Natalie MacLean is a wine writer, broadcaster and Brunello lover. She's also the only person to have won both the M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award from the James Beard Foundation and the M.F.K. Fisher Award for Excellence in Culinary Writing from Les Dames d'Escoffier International. Amanda Barnes interviews her on her career in wine, how digital media has transformed wine writing and educ...

2019 in review

Posted on January 11, 2020January 14, 2020 by Robert Smyth, Amanda Barnes

Robert Smyth and Amanda Barnes take a quick look at some of the biggest news stories and wine happenings in 2019. 2019 got off to a fizzing start as nine prolific Cava producers left the DO to start their own new premium sparkling wine category, Corpinnat (February 2019). Despite the rather recent initiative in 2017 of Cava DO to keep some of their most prestigious producers happy with the spec...

Southern Ontario regional report and 2019 vintage profile

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Chuck Byers

Taking stock of half a century of Canadian vintages

Posted on January 7, 2020January 14, 2020 by Michael Vaughan

Michael Vaughan has been writing about Canadian wines for fifty years and assessing the vintages for most of those years, available today on his online publication www.vintageassessments.com. In this interview Amanda Barnes asks him how much Canadian wine has changed over that time, and where he sees the most potential in Canadian wine for the future. You've been writing about Canadian wine since...

The real meaning of blind tasting

Posted on December 9, 2019December 15, 2019 by Richard Lane

Richard Lane describes what it's like to be the WSET's first blind student. A version of this article was originally published at JancisRobinson.com in July 2019. My first semester of the Wine & Spirit Education Trust's Diploma is over, and it’s time to draw breath, while continuing to educate my palate. Being blind, unable to read wine labels, struggling (sometimes) to read articles and book...

Sherry superb yet still slumbering

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Jancis Robinson MW

An academic approach to acquiring fine wine

Posted on November 5, 2019 by Tony Harries

Tony Harries owns up to a sneaky student scheme he used to snap up some serious wine. His big bag, it turns out, was not full of books. I’m going to start with a confession; a youthful indiscretion and I know that when you first read this you’ll be shocked. Hopefully by the time you get to the end you might actually wish that I’d done worse. I want to talk about something I invented, called ‘Alco...