How much terroir expression do you really want in your wine?
by Margaret Rand
I’ve got a great idea. Every time somebody asks my husband a question, I’m going to answer it for him. And it won’t be the answer he would give, because...
Author: Tim Atkin
The US Wine Apocalypse: It Could Still Happen
by Christy Canterbury MW
“Excellent!”, tweeted Donald J. Trump. That is all that it took for many in the US wine business to begin spewing soundbites like, “Disaster Averted” and “Panic Over”. Such nonsensical...
Treasure Island
by Rod Smith MW
As the tragedy of Australia’s 2019/20 bushfires continues to unfold, the most significant impact on the wine industry has been tragedy in the Adelaide Hills. So far, Tasmania has largely...
Exploring Chile’s outer limits
by Tim Atkin
The life jacket seemed like a good idea, given the size of the launch and the strength of the wind barreling down the jetty. Nervously, I climbed on board and...
Has the shift to consumerism broken the wine world?
by John Atkinson MW
“All our hands are dirty, but some are dirtier than others” – Frédéric Neyrat Climate, for so long a remote ledger of mankind’s bid to unshackle itself from the brutishness...
The Taste of Smoke
by Harry Eyres
I write in a time of ashes. Not only have certain political dreams and projects recently gone up in smoke; the destructive fires have been raging more literally, all across...
Not Bending It Like Beckham
by Peter Pharos
I have often been told I am a dream restaurant customer. I love thinking and discussing everything about them: the décor, the ambience, the service, the food and the wine...
On wine, memory and Christmas
by Chris Wilson
When I was training to be a radio journalist in the 1990s there was a machine in one of the radio studios called the ‘bulk eraser’. As the name suggests...
Future Forward
by Celia Bryan-Brown
What we’ll be drinking in 2029 In my grandmother’s kitchen there’s a cover of The Sunday Times Magazine stuck on one of the cupboards. It’s the final edition from 2009,...
This Wine Will Save Your Soul
by Peter Pharos
The problem with historical turning points is that the verdict is not out until it’s too late. It is clear now that corporal punishment is a cruel and ineffective tool...
What makes a wine taste expensive?
by Margaret Rand
It happened at a Berry Bros tasting, down in the cellars where the floors are so uneven that they give you the impression you’ve absorbed a lot more alcohol than...
How to become a coffee nerd
by Jono Le Feuvre
In the world of Monday Mornings, overly perky baristas are an unnecessary evil. Not least of all the one spouting one-liners about “their amazing carbonic maceration natural Ethiopian Gesha”. Because,...