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    • A tale of five Tokajs
    • Midin Sekizli-Tamnath-Haştan
    • Molana Dry Red 2021 
    • Paltrinieri Lambrusco di Sorbara DOCG ‘Leclisse’ 2022
    • Piekenierskloof Heidedal Cinsault 2022
    • Klinker Brick Old Ghost Zinfandel 2018
    • Volcanic Slopes Vineyards Pure 2018
    • Karam Touriga Nacional 2019
    • Tokaj Classic Szamorodni 2013.
    • Interesting Wines – An Update
    • Unbranded Clinton, 2020
    • Chateau Dereszla Szamorodni Szaraz 2016
    • Terre Nere DOC Etna Bianco Santo Spirito 2020
    • Épistémê 2020
    • Vignerons de Carthage, Muscat sec de Kibilia, 2017
    • Diego Morra DOC Verduno Pelaverga 2019
    • Champagne Marc Chauvet Cuvée Duo 2012
    • Bosman Twyfeling Cinsaut 2016
    • Estate Argyros Vinsanto 1947
    • Lyrarakis Wines Dafni Psarades PGI Crete 2017
    • Sadie Family Wines, ‘T Voetpad 2017
    • Gerhard Markowitsch Carnuntum Zweigelt Reid Kirchweingarten 2015
    • Luberri-Monje Amestoy, DOCa Rioja Luberri 2017
    • Domaine Wachau Gemischter Satz
  • Wine and Covid-19
    • Wine in the Time of Pestilence IX – Wine Consumption
    • Wine in the Time of Pestilence VIII: Champagne
    • Wine in the Time of Pestilence VII – Wine Distribution
    • Wine in the Time of Pestilence VI – Wine Production
    • Wine in the Time of Pestilence V
    • Wine in the Time of Pestilence IV: A Footnote
    • Wine in the Time of Pestilence IV
    • Wine in the Time of Pestilence III
    • Wine in the Time of Pestilence II
    • Wine in the Time of Pestilence I
  • Archive
    • 2024
      • A new year, a new start
    • 2022
      • The Arrival of a Sussex Sparkling Appellation: A Sad Day for English Wine
      • Klinker Brick Old Ghost Zinfandel 2018
      • Volcanic Slopes Vineyards Pure 2018
    • 2021
      • The Culture of Pink Wines
      • The Jews of Tokaj
      • Volcanic Wines II: Wine and Minerality
      • Volcanic Wines I: Wineries on the Edge.
      • Marsala: Bringing back a wine from the dead.
      • A forgotten corner of Champagne
      • Flavour and colour: Wine taste and synaesthesia
      • Back Again…
      • The Magon Project
    • 2020
      • Water into wine
      • Wine and women
      • The end of wine as we know it?
      • English wine and British wine
    • 2019
      • Greece
        • Retsina II
        • Will there be wine from Santorini in 20 years’ time?
        • Tradition and change on Santorini
        • Europe and the evolution of wine quality
        • Wine and the end of life
        • A bit more about savatiano
        • What are the boundaries of natural wine?
      • Lebanon
        • The Revolution in Lebanon
        • Invaders
        • War
        • Religion
        • The Archeology of Lebanese Wine
      • South African Old Vines Project at Prowein
      • Kees Van Leeuwen on Terroir
      • South Africa
        • Land Rights
        • Black Economic Empowerment: Meerlust
        • Shadows Over the Vineyards
        • Stellenbosch University
      • Austria
    • 2018
      • Austria
        • Gemischter Satz
        • Some History
        • Wine and the Politics of Reunification
        • The Problem of Zweigelt
      • Greece
        • Domaine Papagiannakos: Reinventing Savatiano
        • Retsina
      • Old-style Rioja
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Welcome to my website about wine, culture, and society.  My day job is as a Professor of Wine Marketing – but I have a special interest in how we feel and think about, and engage with, wine.  So this site aims to stimulate debate about the relationship of wine to the varying people and cultures who make it and drink it.  You won’t find lots of advice on what to buy here –  but you will find reflections from my travels around the world of wine about how people think and talk about it, along with various musings related to how we view wine and understand its cultural significance...read more here

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