Do icon wines undermine typicity?
by Christy Canterbury MW
When I was studying for the Master of Wine exam, the running joke (and reality) about my study group’s wines was that the Institute couldn’t afford the very best wines....
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The HoseMaster of Wine™ Sits for the Master of Wine Exam
by Ron Washam
I recently sat for the Master of Wine exam. I was in my own apartment, alone, and I was wearing only a bath robe and a Donald Trump merkin, which...
Score Settling
by Peter Pharos
We are all men and women of the world, us. We know that wine is poetry in a bottle, a marriage of art and craft, its enjoyment the result of...
Sparkling English Wine Writing
by Peter Pharos
A short time after the Brexit Referendum, I wrote a piece for a Wine Writing Competition [1]. Those were the heady times of the Birmingham conference, with their Citizens of...
Is sobriety a feminist issue?
by Celia Bryan-Brown
Feminism is the watch-word du jour, and not just among women of a certain age and political inclination. The drive for gender equality, and, more saliently, accountability, had ‘feminism’ named...
Accented French – the red wines of north-eastern Greece
by Peter Pharos
Every oenophile probably has that one moment of public blind tasting when it All Goes Right. Mine came sometime in the mid-noughties at the rooftop bar of the Athens Hilton....
Wine and social media: goodbye medium+ acidity?
by Celia Bryan-Brown
Marketeers have referred to 2018 as the year of the influencer – and it surely will be for sectors which have clearly defined the distinction between celebrity and social media...
Why Can’t We Accept Mothers Who Drink?
by Celia Bryan-Brown
The ‘Wine Mom’ has become an infamous staple of popular culture. She loves a meme, her personalised ‘mummy juice’ glassware and sassy ‘wine o’clock’ kitchen signage – and she can’t...
The mindful glass?
by Sarah Abbott MW
27 Wine is as good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately: what life is then to a man that is without wine? for it was made to...
Calm down, dear
by Sarah Abbott MW
And those who are beautiful,who can contain them?Rainer Maria Rilke Remember this! No amount of Bacchic revelling can corrupt an honest women.Euripides, The Bacchae Last week a wine trade colleague...
Whose wine is it anyway?
by Sarah Abbott MW
“…and cool wine, fitting glove-like over those finer nerves that seem to tremble from the roof of my mouth and make it spread (as I drink) into a domed cavern,...
South Africa triumphs at the Lismore Chardonnay tasting
by Tim Atkin
Way back in 1992, so long ago that it’s even disappeared from remaindered bookshelves, I wrote a tome about Chardonnay. It was a tour d’horizon of the world’s most popular...