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After earning a doctorate in history from Cornell and teaching at Tulane, Charlie Leary became an organic farmer and artisan cheesemaker. He was inducted into the Guilde Internationale des Fromagers. He then opened a Creole vegetarian restaurant in New Orleans, directing the wine program. He managed wine programs in Costa Rica, the Dordogne, and Nova Scotia, the latter winning Wine Spectator’s Awa...

For his greatly detailed Wine Faults and Flaws: A Practical Guide, Keith Grainger has won the 2022 Prix de l'OIV for the Oenology Category. Receiving the award in Bordeaux last month, Keith shares his excitement: "I am so thrilled! And following on from my success in the Gourmand Awards for The Best Wine Book for Professionals, I am over the moon!" Congratulations to Keith! Congratulation...

Anne-Wies van Oosten, DipWSET and Registervinoloog, is a Dutch wine and food journalist, currently living in Romania. In 2022 she graduated as Weinakademiker with her thesis on the “Development and Future of Wine Tourism in Transylvania”. She spends part of the year in her house in Transylvania, from where she visits and consults Romanian wineries and importers. For the other part, she travels th...

The Circle of Wine Writers has made a yearly donation to the Drinks Trust charity towards its work supporting individuals in the UK drinks industry. Winnie Bowman, chair of the Circle, commented: "We are delighted to contribute to the invaluable work of the Drinks Trust. The hospitality sector has emerged successfully from lockdown, but with the cost of living crisis worsening many people in th...

Congratulations to Circle member Jane Anson who was announced as the winner of the IWSC's Wine Communicator of the Year Trophy on 29th September in London. "An incredibly well respected and established communicator, our judges really appreciated Jane’s ongoing drive to experiment with new formats in the world of communication to really share her message," posted the IWSC in its shortlist announ...

Randy Caparoso is a freelance wine journalist and photographer who lives Lodi, California. He is the author of Lodi!, The Definitive Guide and History of America's Largest Winegrowing Region. To put bread (and wine) on the table, he serves as Editor-at-Large, Bottom Line columnist and SOMM Camp director for The SOMM Journal, while blogging and doing the social media work for the Lodi Winegrape Co...

Liam Campbell, Diploma WSET, is a Dublin-based wine writer, presenter and approved educator and invigilator for over 25 years of WSET Levels 2 and 3. Liam was previously Wine and Drinks Editor for a number of wine books, lifestyle magazines and a national newspaper, Irish Independent. He is currently working with Hotel & Restaurant Times magazine and also writes a weekly blog. At ease with t...

Freelance writer Åsa Johansson moved to Italy in 2001. After a degree in political science and journalism at the University of Florence and a DipWSET in London, today she writes about wine, food, and travel for magazines in Swedish and international magazines like Decanter, Quench Magazine, Corriere Vinicolo, Guida ristorante dell´Espresso, Svenska Dagbladet, Aperitif, and others. She has visited...

Niels van Laatum is a Dutch wine writer and journalist. He is a skilled copywriter with a keen eye for all things green in the world of wine. Niels is a member of the tasting and writing panel of De Grote Hamersma, the largest wine platform for consumers in The Netherlands. He has his own column in Vision, a Dutch gastronomic magazine, and writes articles for several other online platforms and ...