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The Smart Traveller's Wine Guides – book reviews
Six sleek guides for wine lovers wanting on-the-ground advice on what and where to drink and eat. The Smart Traveller’s Wine Guides Bordeaux, by Georgie Hindle – ISBN 9781917084512 Napa...
Ben Colvill
Monday 22 December 2025
• 1 min read
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For her entry to our writing competition, another old-vine vineyard in Oregon, Karen Magner writes, ' Greetings from Denver, Colorado...
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We're back in the Skurfberg region for Rob MacCulloch MW's entry to our old-vine writing competition. He writes, ' I'm...
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Lindsay Jones' entry to our old-vines writing competition begins, 'My name is Lindsay and I am an educator based in...
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Caroline Gilby MW is a wine writer, Eastern European wine specialist and author of The wines of Bulgaria, Romania and...
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Olly Styles writes, 'Well the old vines thing was pretty irresistible. I was at Decanter for six years from 2003–2009...
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' My name is Valeria Tenison, I am a Russian sommelier and wine journalist, living in France. In 2020 I...
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The third entry to our 2021 writing competition on old vines is from Etienne Neethling, who introduces himself as 'a...
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Ze'ev Dunie is the author of the second 2021 writing competition entry to be published. He writes: 'Owner and winemaker...
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The first entry to our 2021 writing competition on old vines is from Sarah May Grunwald, who describes herself thus...
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As it's English Wine Week, it seems a good time for reviews of a couple of books, recently published, on...
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31 March 2021 Note that the dates of the South African trip offered to the winner have been changed to...
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The wine world lost one of its great adventurers last night. Steven Spurrier is pictured above with his wife Bella...
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We're thrilled that our Australian correspondent's latest book has won this major UK book award. Max is pictured above mixing...
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Max on Oz
The background to Max's hugely original new book about Australian grog. See Tam's enthusiastic review of Intoxicating .
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