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The Look of Wine – book review
A compelling call to really look at your wine before you drink it, and appreciate the power of colour. The Look of Wine Reading wine colour Florence de La Rivière...
Tamlyn Currin
Tuesday 9 December 2025
• 7 min read
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Rooted in Change – book review
A courageous book that tackles the unwieldy subject of sustainability in wine with extraordinary detail, pragmatism and warmth. Rooted in Change The stories behind sustainable wine Jane Masters MW and...
Tamlyn Currin
Wednesday 5 November 2025
• 1 min read
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For today's 2023 wine writing competition entry, Italian wine aficionado Barbara Fitzgerald writes about Claudia Cigliuti, a Piemontese winegrower. See...
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In this submission to our 2023 wine writing competition, English vintner Melissa Evans writes about her twin sister and co-vintner...
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We have been absolutely delighted with the 134 submissions to our 2023 wine writing competition (WWC23). Following a preliminary round...
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25 May 2023 Just six days left to enter our annual wine writing competition! We are eager to hear about...
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Taking rosé seriously, all year round.
Rosés of Southern France
Elizabeth Gabay MW and Ben Bernheim
Published by Zalabim Conseil...
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2 February 2023 This week’s podcast featuring winemaker/rock star Maynard James Keenan had us digging through our archives to see...
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The last set of book reviews from 2022 focuses on the history of wine with a particularly British theme.
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Crushed How a changing climate is altering the...
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If that holiday-shopping panic has begun to...
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Book reviews today literally go from A to Z. Or rather, Z to A – from Zimbabwe to Argentina. See...
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Five books for learners. From amateurs to MWs, these books address learning from every angle, some more successfully than others...
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Tam has been hard at work reading wine books on your behalf to pick out those to add to your...
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