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On California published by Académie du Vin Library

Posted on December 14, 2021December 20, 2021 by Amanda Barnes

Last October, the Académie du Vin Library published a seminal book on California wine —past, present and future stories told by renowned international wine writers, including members of The Circle of Wine Writers. On California is the long-awaited collection of best works from the world's most beloved wine writers, following its predecessor, On Bordeaux. The newest title encompasses the expansi...

Virginia Gold: the nascent wines of Barboursville Vineyards

Posted on December 14, 2021December 19, 2021 by Richard Leahy

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Raymond Blake set to publish Wine Talk

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Raymond Blake

Raymond Blake is set to have his latest book, Wine Talk, published early next year by Skyhorse in New York. Raymond Blake is one of Ireland’s leading wine writers, whose work appears in numerous magazines across the globe, including The World of Fine Wine. Recently he has also established a strong online presence, presenting wine tasting webinars to audiences in four continents, as well as priv...

Billy Abbott publishes The Philisophy of Whisky

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Amanda Barnes

Billy Abbott has published The Philosophy of Whisky, a book taking 'a short look at the history of whisky and how it’s drunk today'. The book is accompanied by illustrations from the British Library archives and includes, according to Abbott, "one invocation of irony, lots of realisation that the English were complete gits in the past, and one severed digit". It was recently reviewed by Club...

An open letter: Lighter glass bottles campaign

Posted on December 14, 2021December 19, 2021 by Aleesha Hansel

Meet the Friend: Alan Aboud, FONDATA

Posted on November 21, 2021November 23, 2021 by Alan Aboud

Alan Aboud is the creative director of Fine and Rare's new FONDATA publication (which features Member Jancis Robinson MW on the cover in its first edition). In this Meet the Friend interview, Amanda Barnes finds out how the fine wine market has changed during the pandemic, the concept of a 'journal of adjacencies' and why moving from Black Tower to Meursault has been great for his palate but not h...

Let’s talk about Criolla, South America’s native grape varieties, with Amanda Barnes

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Wink Lorch

Wink Lorch tastes and tours through the Criolla grape varieties and wine regions of South America during Amanda Barnes' Let's talk about Criolla webinar earlier this year. There was something intoxicating about this hour, and it wasn’t only that I was one of the lucky ones to receive three wines to taste. “Crrree-oy-ya” intoned Amanda, a fluent South American Spanish speaker, who really knows h...

A sparkling taste of Austrian wine with Fred Loimer

Posted on November 21, 2021November 21, 2021 by Amanda Barnes

Meet the Member: Carolyn Evans Hammond

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Carolyn Evans Hammond

Conducting an orchestra of sparkling wine

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Amanda Barnes

Amanda Barnes finds herself in awe at Corinne Seely’s ability to craft a Blanc de Blancs blend from a large ensemble of reserve wines at Exton Park. “Do you have a big black book in which you write this all down?” I asked Corinne Seely in awe as she started to detail the hundreds of tanks, barrels and vats of reserve wines she keeps to hand to make her reserve blend sparkling wines at Exton Park....