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Closing out cork taint
Wine and the world’s changing climate
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Tasting Canada from coast to coast
Amanda Barnes’ palate spans 4,000 kilometres in one tasting as she also feels the buzz in being back at a live event.
There’s a certain joy about seeing familiar faces again in person, isn’t there? After two years of physical separation, although with perhaps some virtual interaction, between most nations in the wine industry, the revival of in-person wine tastings and trade shows feels quite he...
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Meet the Friend: Paul Mabray, pix.wine
Paul Mabray is one of the wine industry's foremost thinkers in bringing wine into the digital space. He has worked in important developments at wine.com, and founded vintank.com and winedirect.com, and today is focused on the development of pix.wine — a new wine discovery platform. Amanda Barnes interviews him as a new Friend of the Circle to find out what makes him tick, and how he envisions the ...
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Seeing the forest through the vines
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The lowdown on Loudenne
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The value of elegance
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Meet the Member: Marisa Finetti
Marisa Finetti was born in Tokyo although raised in San Francisco, where she developed a career as a journalist and in the television industry before she quit the city lifestyle to become a grape grower in Sonoma for a decade. Today she is a wine writer and illustrator, based in Las Vegas. Amanda Barnes interviews Marisa for our Meet the Member feature and learns how sticky boots taught Marisa abo...
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Congratulations to Amanda Barnes and Jasper Morris MW on winning the André Simon Awards 2021
Keith Grainger shares news of two Circle members taking home the prestigious wine book awards in André Simon Awards earlier this month.
Let’s give hearty congratulations to Circle members Jasper Morris MW, and Amanda Barnes for their success in the 2021 André Simon Awards. The results of this prestigious competition were announced at virtual ‘Zoom’ Ceremony, which was held on 8th March 2022. T...
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Exploring Quintessa’s Napa terroir
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