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....
Topic: wine tasting
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?...
Wine’s Epiphany
by Wojciech Bońkowski MW
When did you last cry? From pain, relief, elation? Was it a book, a movie? Were you bidding some farewell for a year, for ever? For me, it is often...
The Tyranny Of The Label
by Guy Woodward
One of my abiding memories from my days editing Decanter magazine comes from the panel tastings we used to hold in the 10th-floor executive suite overlooking the Tate Modern. Twice...
Peaks And Troughs
by Margaret Rand
I’ve always liked Sauzet Burgundies well enough. And if that sounds tepid, it’s supposed to: they were clearly very good, but just never set my pulses racing. And then this...
We’ve Never Had It So Good
by Peter Pharos
“I have opinions of my own, strong opinions,” that beacon of American conservative thought, George W. Bush, is alleged to have told us, “but I don’t always agree with them.”...
When?
by Clare Tooley MW
The ‘what’ can take a thought or two, the how, where, with whom, barely a moment. But the ‘when’, ah the ‘when’, there’s the rub. I don’t have a favorite...
On The Road Again
by Tim Atkin
After 18 months of Zoom calls, Instagram Lives and home tastings, of Coravin capsules, small samples and endless recycling bags, I finally got to visit a wine region two weeks...