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Wine writer and Circle member Timo Jokinen's restaurant in Tampere, Winebridge, has become the third restaurant in Finland to have won a Wine Spectator Award of Excellency. Winebridge joins the two other Finnish restaurants recognised by the awards, Restaurant Pastis and Restaurant Muru, in the esteemed list which evaluates restaurants not only based on their cuisine and service but pays signif...

Bella Spurrier, the late wife of wine industry legend Steven Spurrier, received The Oeno Golden Vines Honorary Award in honour of Steven Spurrier's extraordinary achievements at an intimate event hosted by Liquid Icons and The Macallan at The Macallan Golden Vines Dinner.  The dinner took place at The Manor House in The Rosewood Hotel London on 6th July. Jane MacQuitty, Spurrier’s friend and The ...

Liquid Icons – the fine wine research and content production company founded by the late, great Gerard Basset OBE MW MS and his friend Lewis Chester DipWSET – are delighted to announce the recipients of twelve new scholarships for BAME/BIPOC wine students: The Golden Vines™ Masters of Wine Scholarship, The Golden Vines™ Master Sommelier Scholarship and The Golden Vines™ Wine Scholar Guild Scholars...

Originally from the Chicago area, Robin is a Master of Wine who is presently based in Lugano, Switzerland, where she works as an independent wine consultant, buyer, journalist, educator and judge. Following studies in French and English literature, she changed career paths in 1998 when she left her teaching position at the Université de Nice to study wine at the BIVB in Beaune, France and the Un...

42 wine students from 23 different nationalities applied for the Taylor’s Port Golden Vines Diversity Scholarships programme, which has been designed to find and promote future role models from BAME / BIPOC communities globally to reach the very top levels of the wine industry and stand as torch bearers, encouraging students from these communities to consider a career in wine.  Applicants includ...

Chris Foulkes is an editor and publisher specialising in wine. With Carrie Segrave, he runs Segrave Foulkes Publishers – also Berry Bros. & Rudd Press in partnership with the London wine merchants. BB&R Press publishes Inside Burgundy by Jasper Morris (2010; second edition 2021) and Inside Bordeaux by Jane Anson (2020), plus other titles and ebooks. Chris began publishing as head of Mitch...

Dr Jo Burzynska has now completed and been awarded a PhD, for her thesis entitled: Tuning Sensory Terroir: Mapping correspondences between sound and wine. This was a creative and empirical investigation of crossmodal correspondences - the systematic association of sensory features from different modalities - which identified a number of correspondences between sonic/musical properties and wine ...

The Drinks Trust has welcomed a new Chair of the Board of Trustees, Troy Christensen, as well as three new Patrons, Ian Burrell, Becky Paskin and Jaega Wise. Troy Christensen joined the charity’s Board of Trustees in 2018, having been a long-standing supporter of The Drinks Trust both personally and through his company Enotria&Coe. Christensen brings extensive expertise as an industry busines...