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Guide to our old-vines coverage
4 June 2026 In advance of the 2026 Old Vine Conference on 8 June, we’re republishing this overview of our old-vines coverage, newly updated. 28 June 2023 The Old Vine...
Julian Leidy
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'Hello. My name is Savvas Kyriakidis and I am a wine wonk by chance. I studied Journalism and Mass Communications...
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Entrant Ulrich Hagenmeyer writes in, ' The article is named "Creutz -- Buried, Denied, Risen again" and describes the last-minute...
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The Panmans have inadvertently frequented our Purple Pages one way or another over the last 12 years, their beautiful Limoux...
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Charlotte Fenwick writes, ' A chartered accountant based in Newcastle, I spend too much of my time daydreaming about red...
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Jancis once described him as ' winemaker without portfolio', and has recently written about his rather dramatic adventures in Bolivia...
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Adrianna Catena wrote quite a long introduction to her writing-competition entry, which we've published in full because it provides some...
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'The Old Man and the Vine' was written by Tim Eichelberger, who introduces himself thus: ' My name is Tim...
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In his introduction to the second entry featuring Charles Coury and the David Hill Vineyard, Lewis Kopman writes, ' I...
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Jerry Smith's entry to our old-vine writing competition is about an acre of 53-year-old Riesling. He writes, 'I’m a veterinarian...
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'Mary K. Miller is a freelance science and environment writer with a passion for wine first sparked when she took...
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Ben Van Antwerp's bio reads: 'Ben is a winemaker in the Sta Rita Hills for Ken Brown Wines. He is...
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Katrina de Gentile-Williams' introduction to her competition entry is long, but I couldn't resist including it. 'When I enrolled in...
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