Sarah Jane Evans MW is based in the UK but is particularly highly valued in the wine sector in Spain. A lover of the wines of Jerez, she devoted her MW dissertation to a study of the almacenistas (wine warehouses) of Jerez. She is an outstanding academic, winning the Robert Mondavi Winery Award for the highest overall marks in wine theory in the MW papers in...
What Spain's MWs like – Sarah Jane Evans
Monday 3 February 2020
In this second part of an exploration of the tastes of the eight Masters of Wine most closely associated with Spain, Ferran quizzes Sarah Jane Evans MW. See also Ferran's introduction to this eight-part series.
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