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Meet the Member: John Salvi MW

Posted on October 23, 2022October 25, 2022 by John Salvi MW

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Meet the Member: Colin Hampden-White

Posted on August 25, 2022August 27, 2022 by Amanda Barnes

Meet the Member: Jasper Morris MW

Posted on July 11, 2022 by Amanda Barnes

One of the world’s most sought-after experts on Burgundy and author of Inside Burgundy, Jasper Morris MW has experience across the industry as a buyer, critic and writer. In this interview from Jasper’s home in Beaune, Amanda Barnes asks him about how he sees key changes in Burgundy playing out and what other wine regions make him tick. How did you first get into wine? It came about thro...

Meet the Member: Jochen Erler

Posted on June 24, 2022June 28, 2022 by Robert Smyth

A regular contributor to The Circular, Jochen Erler got in to wine writing while living in England, after a career in academia and the international civil service. He has written for Harpers and many other London-based wine publications, and has been the foreign correspondent for Austria’s WeinBau, as well writing for various German wine magazines. Nowadays, he writes for Dionysos, the magazine of...

Meet the Member: René Langdahl

Posted on May 23, 2022May 27, 2022 by Amanda Barnes

René Langdahl is wine writer, podcaster and educator in Denmark. In this interview, he tells Amanda Barnes why he never got that promised taste of DRC from his confirmation party, and why writing about wine for cash-strapped students was the start of his wine writing career. He also shares an insight into the post-pandemic wine world of Denmark and comments on the trends that excite him, including...

Meet the Member: Marisa Finetti

Posted on April 11, 2022April 19, 2022 by Amanda Barnes

Marisa Finetti was born in Tokyo although raised in San Francisco, where she developed a career as a journalist and in the television industry before she quit the city lifestyle to become a grape grower in Sonoma for a decade. Today she is a wine writer and illustrator, based in Las Vegas. Amanda Barnes interviews Marisa for our Meet the Member feature and learns how sticky boots taught Marisa abo...

Meet the Member: Mick Rock

Posted on March 13, 2022March 19, 2022 by Mick Rock

Mick Rock has been photographing wine for three decades and is one of the wine industry's most important sources for wine photography with his company Cephas. Amanda Barnes interviews him to find out about some of his early adventures in wine (including covering 10,000 miles in seven weeks in a 4x4) and his plans for the future — which include one very special butterfly. What's your earliest mem...

Meet the Member: Jon Wyand

Posted on January 23, 2022January 23, 2022 by Amanda Barnes

Jon Wyand is an award-winning photographer whose many works include his own two books, 4 seasons in Côte Chalonnaise and A year on Corton. In this interview, Amanda Barnes learns how it was his £1-a-night job that lured him into the world of wine and of his plans for the year to come. What first brought you into the world of wine? Well, it wasn’t drinking it! Alcohol was not a thing in...

Meet the Member: Carolyn Evans Hammond

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Carolyn Evans Hammond

Meet the Member: Christopher Foulkes

Posted on October 20, 2021October 22, 2021 by Amanda Barnes

Christopher Foulkes started drinking wine at a rather early age and writing about it in the 1970s, but it is his role as a publisher in the world of wine books that has perhaps brought him the greatest recognition in the industry today. Having published over 40 wine books worldwide, he is certainly one of the most experienced in the field. Amanda Barnes interviews him about his experience in the i...