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Free for all Golden Vines MW Scholarship shortlist 2025 – part 3

The final tranche of impressive candidates who have been shortlisted for the Barca-Velha Golden Vines MW Scholarships. See part 1 for the full story behind these awards as well as...

Guest contributor Wednesday 13 August 2025 • 1 min read

Free for all Golden Vines MW Scholarship shortlist 2025 – part 2

Guest contributor Tuesday 5 August 2025 • 1 min read

Free for all Golden Vines MW Scholarship shortlist 2025 – part 1

Guest contributor Tuesday 29 July 2025 • 1 min read

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Golden Vines applicants – Aki Sudo

The 44-year-old Tokyo restaurateur in the shadows above had a lot to say about modern Japan in her application for...

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Golden Vines applicants – Diana Hawkins

Our next profiled applicant for a Taylor's Port Golden Vines Diversity Scholarship (see also Winnie Toh) is Diana Hawkins, an...

Mags Janjo, winner of the Golden Vines Master of Wine Scholarship 2021

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Two plus 10 scholarships announced

Twelve new scholarships designed to broaden the ethnic mix of those engaged successfully in the wine world are announced, along...

Adriana, Bulgarian wine woman role model

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The powerful women of Bulgaria

Eastern Europe specialist Caroline Gilby MW reports on a remarkable phenomenon. The inspirational Adriana Srebrinova, of Borovitza winery in Bulgaria...

Samuel de Pury's vineyard in Yarra Valley by William Barak c 1898 - Museum d'Ethnographie, Neuchatel

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Acknowledgement of Country in Australia

This Aboriginal depiction of a vineyard in the Yarra Valley was made 120 years ago by a man called William...

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Two scholarships worth £55,000 envisaged

30 October 2021 See details of the two recipients of these major Taylor's Port Golden Vines Diversity Scholarships in The...

Drinks not wine

Piquette – the people's drink

Arnica Rowan chronicles a growing trend. At the height of last summer, I offered up a thirst-quenching, unconventional drink for...

Aleesha Hansel, winner of the Roederer BAME Bursary

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Mentorship catches on

And Roederer’s BAME bursary goes to… As soon as the BAME Wine Professionals website was launched on 1 September, Champagne...

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Giving thanks …

… on Thanksgiving Day, with an apposite (rotated) image supplied by food photographer Alison Marras via Unsplash. It’s a little...

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Women and wine – a tipping point

A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. I have often been asked what life has...

Firing Blancs by Peter Stafford-Bow book cover

Book reviews

Book reviews 2020 – politics, piety and parable

See this guide to all of this season's book reviews. Whether you're spiritual or political or think mythology might be...

Tinashe Nyamudoka, Zimbabwean sommelier turned winemaker

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Tinashe Nyamudoka – from Zim somm to winemaker

Tinashe Nyamudoka was one of the team of Zimbabwean top sommeliers in Cape Town who competed in the World Wine...

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New month, new website

We're proud to have sponsored a completely independent initiative designed to encourage diversity. Bamewineprofessionals.co.uk is launched today, with the aim...