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Volcanic island imbibing
Meet the Member: Mick Rock
Mick Rock has been photographing wine for three decades and is one of the wine industry's most important sources for wine photography with his company Cephas. Amanda Barnes interviews him to find out about some of his early adventures in wine (including covering 10,000 miles in seven weeks in a 4x4) and his plans for the future — which include one very special butterfly.
What's your earliest mem...
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Ukrainian wineries trade wine for weapons
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Compact, classy and complex Collio
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Meet the Member: Moshe Cohen
Moshe Cohen is a wine communicator and podcast presenter based in England. Amanda Barnes interviews him on his favourite wine interviews and asks for tips on Israeli wine, as well as finding out why two wheels and a corkscrew are his favourite holiday companions. Moshe recently presented a CWW seminar based on Israeli wine which is streamable on our YouTube channel.
Tell me about your first...
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Bordeaux’s accessible classification
Richard Lane laps up wines from two contrasting vintages of Les crus Bourgeois – the hot, volumptuous 2018 and the cooler, tauter 2019.
One thing that always ties me up in knots is Bordeaux’s various classification systems. Don’t get me started on the Saint-Emilion classification, and I cannot honestly say I have had the opportunity to taste many of the class growths of the 1855 classification; b...
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Meet the Friend: Ross Carter, The Drinks Trust
Ross Carter has worked in many different areas of the industry over the years but most recently is becoming known for his work at The Drinks Trust (the drinks charity formerly called The Benevolent) as CEO. In this Meet the Friend interview, Amanda Barnes finds out how the parameters shifted for the charity during the pandemic and learns about its key campaigns for 2022. She also discovers how Ros...
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Editor’s Column: Pioneering Gualtallary
Amanda Barnes shares an interview with Terrazas de los Andes CEO Hervé Birnie-Scott and winemaker Marcos Fernandez from the emerging region of Gualtallary in Argentina. A version of this interview was originally published on The South America Wine Guide.
This past month I've been roaming around the vineyards of Argentina, revisiting old friends and catching up with some new developments too. Fo...
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Historic tradition and future aspirations
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Barreal, a desert oasis with old vines
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