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Meet the Friend: Chris Stroud, NZ Winegrowers

Posted on May 4, 2020May 4, 2020 by Amanda Barnes

Chris Stroud is European Marketing Manager for the New Zealand Winegrowers, a Friend of the Circle and the generous supporters of our Christmas Party last year. Amanda Barnes interviews him to find out how growers and producers in New Zealand are coping with Coronavirus, and what will be the first thing he does post-lockdown! What brought you into the wine industry? I studied Spani...

An extremely expensive endeavour

Posted on May 4, 2020 by L.M. Archer

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The Cape Crusader: Rosa Kruger & The Old Vine Project

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Tim Atkin MW

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Virginia wine: beyond the verge

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Richard Leahy

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Welcome to the world of lockdown wine webinars

Posted on May 4, 2020May 7, 2020 by Amanda Barnes

Liz Sagues discovers how despite lockdown the wine world still keeps spinning, bringing producers and writers together via a new format of wine tasting and seminar: the wine webinar. She recaps some of her highlights from last month, including the Circle's own series 'Let's talk about...' Spring in Sussex was, for me, due to be punctuated by wine trips to Portugal and the Loire Valley. Of course,...

A cautionary tale of canfinement

Posted on May 4, 2020May 6, 2020 by Amanda Barnes

An increasingly despairing Tony Harries loses it during lockdown and runs out of supplies. Faced with a difficult choice between two foraged cans of beer and one old bottle of wine that’s way past its best, which will serve to quench our hero’s thirst? I’m going to share a first-world tale of a wine writer. It might shock, it might make you laugh and there might even be one or two who are reac...

Review: Gerard Basset, Tasting Victory

Posted on April 3, 2020April 4, 2020 by Amanda Barnes

Unlike many members, I never had the fortune to know Gerard. I did, however, know of Gerard. It seems there are few people in the wine world who have inspired so many others and made them all feel so welcome. Without exception, when his name has come up in conversation – no matter whether that conversation has been in England, France or even Chile – someone has told me about how delightful Gerard ...

How the wine world is coping with coronavirus

Posted on April 2, 2020April 10, 2020 by Amanda Barnes

Members of the Circle of Wine Writers take a look at their regions, or regions to which they have recently travelled, to share some insight into how the wine world is coping with Coronavirus and the impact of lockdown and social distancing on their businesses. A letter from the Editor: Well, hasn't life as we know it changed in the last month? Last month, we were beginning to cancel events f...

Meet the Friend: Angela Muir MW

Posted on March 30, 2020March 31, 2020 by Amanda Barnes

Angela Muir MW has been working in the wine trade since 1970, right from her first job on leaving Bristol University. Ten years later she became a Master of Wine, in fact one of the first female MWs, and has been a respected consultant to wine producers and companies ever since, establishing her own consultancy company, Cellarworld, in 1993. Amanda Barnes interviews her about her experience in the...

Book Review: The Book of St John

Posted on March 11, 2020March 14, 2020 by Amanda Barnes

Many members will be well-aware of Circle Member Trevor Gulliver and his partner Fergus Henderson's popular St John restaurant in London, where offal and the humble pig took the centre stage, and the wine selection came a close second. Earlier this year, they released their book, The Book of St John, which reflects their 'nose-to-tail' ethos of holistic eating (using every part of the animal) and ...