Julia Harding MW

Julia, as senior editor, has been a key member of the team for 20 years and has been crucial to maintaining the high editorial standards of this site. Her qualifications are exceptional as you can see here. A top pass in the punishing Master of Wine exams (she passed first time with flying colours, and gained a distinction for her dissertation), she is particularly up to speed on oenological and viticultural matters and has been much in demand as a mentor for Master of Wine students. She has won many awards for her writing, including the Masters of Wine Noval Award for Excellence in Communication (2007); the Chairman’s Award in the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers’ Awards (2009), Portuguese Wine Writer of the Year (2012); shortlisted for the Roederer Award for Online Communicator (2014 and 2017); named Wines of Portugal Personality of 2022 and in 2025 won the 67 Pall Mall Global Wine Communicator award for long-form writing. She is also the author, with José Vouillamoz and Jancis, of the multi-award-winning Wine Grapes; the maps editor for the 7th, 8th and (forthcoming) 9th editions of the World Atlas of Wine; and became lead editor of the Oxford Companion to Wine with the 5th edition (published in 2023), after having co-edited with Jancis the 3rd and 4th editions.

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