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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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Xeniya Volosnikova's entry to our competition was titled, 'Sleeping vines of the Silk road – a story of one abandoned...
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Old Merwah vines take their spot in the limelight for our next competition entry by Farrah Berrou. 'I am a...
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Architect Umay Çeviker has written several articles for JancisRobinson.com and is a fount of knowledge when it comes to Turkish...
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Bart de Vries sent this as his preamble to his entry in our writing competition: 'A geographer by training, Bart's...
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Olga Antoniadou, a Greek-South African psychiatrist and wine lover living in Athens, is one of our writing competition veterans and...
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For our second English-vineyard-based entry to the writing competition, Sam Hellyer reports in. 'I'm the head of wine and spirits...
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Andrea Lemieux's entry for our 2021 writing competition is entitled, 'Ancient roots of wine run deep in Midin'. By way...
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In her competition entry entitled 'Scenes of freedom and survival', Desislava Lyapova, senior writer at Liv-ex and freelance wine-marketing consultant...
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'Dear ladies and gentlemen, my name is Vasilis Mylonas, 33 years old and I'm agronomist at Kir-Yianni Estate, Greece. I'm...
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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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Monique Geisen is another Oregon fan, introducing herself as 'an account supervisor at Los Angeles-based PR firm Jarvis Communications. She...
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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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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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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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Caroline Gilby MW is a wine writer, Eastern European wine specialist and author of The wines of Bulgaria, Romania and...
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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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