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Inside information Rarely has relief been so palpable as when I found out last month that after three years of working on...

Inside information Almost six months have passed since the last instalment of my MW diary. Since then, I’ve sold a flat, bought...

Free for all The agony is over for six aspiring Masters of Wine who learned this morning that they have finally acquired the...

Free for all 12 June 2014 – As a Throwback Thursday we are republishing this four-year-old 12th instalment of Richard's account of his...

Free for all Last week was the week the annual Master of Wine Practical and Theory examinations were held, as concurrently as time...

Tasting articles The recent MW Symposium in Florence was not all talk. There were two excellent tastings, both organised superbly by my...

Inside information Finally, I seem to be bearing down on an accepted topic for my Research Paper. I have had two consecutive...

Inside information Having decided to move from a dissertation to one of the recently proposed Research Papers (see MW diary – part...

Inside information How quickly technology can change. You may have read the recent stories about the latest rollercoasters – it seems that...

Free for all Last Thursday night the most recent batch of Masters of Wine were officially anointed at the annual MW get together...

Free for all This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times . This week the Institute of...

Inside information No sooner had I hinted that change was a-comin' to the MW dissertation process than an announcement precisely to that...

Inside information After a self-enforced summer hiatus caused by my May decision to abandon my then-current dissertation project, I am reviving my...

Free for all Very many congratulations to the eight people who, it has just been announced, have had their MW dissertations approved so...

Free for all Last week, the fiendishly challenging Master of Wine examinations were held in three locations around the world: London, Sydney and...

Free for all In Vintners' Hall in London last night, at a dinner for the great and good of the international wine trade...