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2025 Golden Vines MW scholars announced
The Gérard Basset Foundation has announced this year’s Golden Vines MW Scholarships, supported by the famous Portuguese wine Barca-Velha. Launched in 2021, these scholarships are designed to give wine professionals...
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Wednesday 15 October 2025
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Golden Vines MW Scholarship shortlist 2025 – part 3
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Wednesday 13 August 2025
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12 June 2014 – As a Throwback Thursday we are republishing this four-year-old 12th instalment of Richard's account of his...
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Last week was the week the annual Master of Wine Practical and Theory examinations were held, as concurrently as time...
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Last Thursday night the most recent batch of Masters of Wine were officially anointed at the annual MW get together...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times .
This week the Institute of...
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No sooner had I hinted that change was a-comin' to the MW dissertation process than an announcement precisely to that...
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After a self-enforced summer hiatus caused by my May decision to abandon my then-current dissertation project, I am reviving my...
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Very many congratulations to the eight people who, it has just been announced, have had their MW dissertations approved so...
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Last week, the fiendishly challenging Master of Wine examinations were held in three locations around the world: London, Sydney and...
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In Vintners' Hall in London last night, at a dinner for the great and good of the international wine trade...
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Dear D, This isn’t going to be easy, for either of us. You and I, we’ve been through so much...
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With three months to go before my dissertation is due, I am locked in battle with certain problems that threaten...
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Last month, several dozen MW students went to Bordeaux for their second-year seminar week, just as I did in 2011...
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