Opinion Archives - 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...

Shedding light on Slovakian wine

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Jochen Erler

Jochen Erler, who first reported on Slovakian wine in the mid-90s, reflects on the country’s wines after judging at the 2019 edition of Slovakia’s National Wine Competition, held in Pezinok. Pezinok is a pleasant town in the foothills of the Little Carpathian mountain range, reflecting its Austro-Hungarian past in its architecture, and showing a lifestyle á la Vienna with cafés busy all day arou...

Sacredly steep Sacra

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

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A Weekend in Ontario Wine Country

Posted on January 11, 2020January 14, 2020 by Margaret Swaine

Nibbling on Newfoundland

Posted on January 11, 2020January 11, 2020 by Margaret Swaine

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...