Where next for women in wine?
by Christy Canterbury MW
Bright lights are shining on women’s issues today. From April’s high profile Women in the World summit to the rise of The Wing’s women-only work and community spaces to podcast...
Author: Tim Atkin
Sideways in Trump Country – An Addendum
by Peter Pharos
You can find the original review here. In a world where feedback is quantifiable, instant, and direct, there is no worse sensation for a writer, even one as frivolous as...
Sideways in Trump Country
by Peter Pharos
Nobody actually says Make America Great Again during the 103 agonising minutes of Wine Country, but one suspects it’s mostly because the writers are not self-aware enough to have a...
Grenache’s true moment in the sun
by Miquel Hudin
Grenache a Go-Go To fill your need for random fact intake, I’d like to inform you that Perpignan, France was the 13th century capital of the Kingdom of Mallorca. For...
The dangers of karaoke journalism
by Tim Atkin
The two emails arrived on the same morning. The first was from Mark A, offering me an “exclusive invite” to join BIGinfluencers.com and “connect with some of the biggest brands”;...
On the Island of Lost Master Sommeliers
by Ron Washam
You can’t find it on a map. Believe me, you don’t want to. It’s one of those God-forsaken places in the world we all do our best as a civilized...
The Ghosts of Wine
by Christina Rasmussen
“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the...
When Tony met Rowan
by Tim Atkin
Autobiographies, according to George Orwell, are only to be trusted when they reveal something disgraceful about the subject. If you discount the revelation that he got a third class degree...
The Rules of BYO
by Matt Walls
Many of us have a few ‘special’ bottles in our collections but finding the time to drink them can prove surprisingly tricky. We don’t all have the skills or the...
The HoseMaster of Wine™ Solves The Enduring Mysteries of Wine
by Ron Washam
Wine is more mysterious than the success of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Yellow Tail of musical theater composers. It’s more mysterious than North Korean FaceBook. Wine has more secrets than...
The 2019 Lismore Tasting
by Tim Atkin
This was the fifth Lismore tasting, designed to pit the best wines of South Africa blind against their peers from the rest of the world. In all, we tasted 35...
It’s Amateur Hour – do you speak the lingo?
by Celia Bryan-Brown
“All utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in”: Toni Morrison, 1998 “The times they are a-changin”: Bob Dylan, 1964 Digital media was...