Colour Blind
by Tim Atkin
As an 18-year-old student in the United States, I took a course in the humanities. One of the books we used was called Learning to Look by Joshua C. Taylor....
Author: Tim Atkin
Transformations
by Margaret Rand
I arrived in Puligny, at my friend Mary’s house, the other weekend, and she handed me a flûte salée from her favourite boulangerie in Beaune. It was celestial: an apotheosis...
Spanish Strategies
by Andy Neather
The setting was magical, steep terraces plunging to the River Miño below. But José Moure was hard-headed about the challenges: “We’re in crisis – the big buyers bought very few...
Contemplating Complantation
by Abbie Bennington
Contemplating complantation may not be the sexiest of titles, but in a volatile world of climate change and uncertainty perhaps it’s time to look back in shaping the future. ‘Back...
A Tough Gig
by Harry Eyres
I expect all of us who work in wine journalism have had some variant of the following conversation: “What do you do?” “I’m a wine writer.” “Is that a job?...
Credible Signals
by Sara Danese
To sell wine, the wine being of good quality is not essential. In fact, selling mediocre wine is easy; selling bad wine is easier still. Not easy in the sense...
The Burgundisation of wine
by Guy Woodward
Every so often, a new buzzword springs up in the wine world. Often rather nebulous, sometimes completely intangible, its role is pithily to reflect a trend gaining traction with the...
Wine’s Old People Problem
by Peter Pharos
HEALTH WARNING: Contains sweeping generalisations, use of stereotypes, and half-believed opinions dressed up as facts. If you feel agitated, apply “not everyone, but some…” liberally throughout. Abandon reading if agitation...
Picking The Right Moment
by Kate Lofthouse
Pharrell Williams, Kate Moss, and a soil expert walk into a bar… and share a bottle of Moët. Not my wittiest opening, but that’s because it isn’t really a joke....
Drinking Together
by Tim Atkin
Patrick McGovern was sometimes described as the Indiana Jones of wine, but this always struck me as wide of the mark. It was hard to imagine him wielding a bullwhip,...
The Lost Domain
by Harry Eyres
Alain-Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes, published the year before the author died in action in 1914, is one of the most haunting and haunted novels ever written. Meaulnes, the restless, rebellious,...
The Death Of Nostalgia
by Tom Hewson
Something was eating away at me; had I written this piece before? Or had somebody else? The only result that came up after a hasty sanity check was an obscure...