There are just three more weeks for applications for the Geoffrey Roberts Award 2010 , a   £3,000/$4,500 travel grant in search of a potential achiever in food or drink who can convince...

Paul O'Doherty is a journalist living in Dublin. He has a books programme, Bookbound, that goes out on Dublin City FM every Monday night and his first book, An Irishman's Diet , based on his...

Paul O'Doherty is a journalist living in Dublin. He has a books programme, Bookbound, that goes out on Dublin City FM every Monday night and his first book, An Irishman's Diet , based on his...

Paul O'Doherty is a journalist living in Dublin. He has a books programme, Bookbound, that goes out on Dublin City FM every Monday night and his first book, An Irishman's Diet , based on his...

19 Feb - See the answer here . 4 Jan - If last weekend's Journal is truly indicative, the answer to the question posed by the title of this article would appear to be: 'prevail upon...

Paul O'Doherty is a journalist living in Dublin. He has a books programme, Bookbound, that goes out on Dublin City FM every Monday night and his first book, An Irishman's Diet , based on his...

Now that the Glenfiddich Awards for food and drink communicators are no more, the André Simon Food and Drink book awards share the UK field for awarding wine writers with the Louis Roederer...

Earlier this year in Sydney I was asked to deliver the 2009 Wine Communicators of Australia Lecture. I opted for speaking off the cuff rather than reading from a prepared text, which is why this...

There has recently been much discussion here on DrVino.com about the extent to which wine writers are and should be in the pockets of wine producers and wine merchants. As a result, I was...

Forgive my obsession with the subject of wine writers. It is perhaps at least understandable since I am one. I recently mused in both Wine books shrivel and England 0, Belgium 1 on the...

A week ago, in Wine books shrivel , I passed on the results of this year's André Simon Awards for food and drinks books. I also bemoaned the fact that so few wine books now seem to be published....

See also England 0, Belgium 1 . Drinks book publishing is in a parlous state if this year’s André Simon Awards are anything to go by. Named after the famous gastronome and patron of...

It almost seems as though British wine writers are turning en masse into winemakers. For the record, I have zero desire to practise what I preach. I am far too much of a control freak to submit...

In a move that should send a shiver down the spine of any wine writer, the Los Angeles Times , reportedly losing money hand over fist, is laying off 150 editorial staff including its wine...

British wine writers are in introspective mode. Many of the handful who enjoy established reputations and a perch in the national press seem to be being squeezed, in terms of both space and...