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Vineyard Magazine – August 2025 – World-Class

www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk “All the world’s a stage”, as some bright spark once wrote.  There comes a time in a winemaker’s life when they must decide whether they are going to step onto that world stage or continue to make local wines for local people.  There are only a handful of English and Welsh wines that venture beyond our borders…
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Vineyard Magazine – July 2025 – LWF

www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk Gosh, the London Wine Fair is an odd place to tour around these days.  I remember back in the Eighties, this annual festival was the single most important wine event of the year, both here and abroad.  Today, it is a mere shadow of its former self, not least because the spotlight has moved to the slick, glitzy events held…
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Vineyard Magazine – June 2025 – Chillable Reds

www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk Many moons ago, I ventured down to the South of France for a day trip, of all things, to discuss chillable reds with a notable winemaker.  I brought with me six very carefully selected bottles in my luggage.  I nominated wines from different corners of the earth and ensured they were made from a wide range of grape varieties. …
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Vineyard Magazine – May 2025 – Rosé Season

www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk  I love Albury Silent Pool Organic Rosé.  I was fortunate to taste a bottle of the 2024 which will be released around the time that this column is published.  I wrote a note on it, and the 2020 Prestige Cuvée Sparkler in my weekly Wednesday Wines column on my website.  As you know, I always include stockist and retail…
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Vineyard Magazine – April 2025 – Ready-to-Drink

www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk When we first put my alcohol-free brand, Jukes, into cans, we wanted an up-market expression to use while talking about our cans.  We landed on Ready-to-Pour or RTP.  Of course, Ready-to-Drink had already been commandeered by fast-moving fizzy pop and the like.  Only the other day, a customer ordered some cans, calling…
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Vineyard Magazine – March 2025 – Slimline Pinot Gris

www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk Around twenty years ago, I was on tour in the Adelaide Hills when a great friend opened a pair of wines for me to taste. Both were superb – one leaner and zestier and the other ripe, rich and lusty. The first was not a Sauvignon Blanc, and the second was not a Chardonnay. They were both made from the same grape, a grape…
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Vineyard Magazine – February 2025 – In Pursuit of 24 Carat Gold

www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk  Time flies.  It really does.  It was a huge honour to be asked to write for the inaugural edition of this brilliant magazine, and I jumped at the chance to be given free rein to expound about the finest-tasting English and Welsh wines over a double-page spread each month.  I don’t think this privilege exists anywhere…
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Vineyard Magazine – January 2025 – A Pink Christmas

www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk I think the forty-quid mark is make or break for elite sparkling wines during the festive season, and I have found three spectacular candidates for your perusal and enjoyment this year. It’s worth spending five minutes searching the internet for prices of familiar rosé Champagnes to see that most famous brands now reside…
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Vineyard Magazine – December 2024 – Purity

www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk This month, my theme is purity. While I adore complex, multilayered, orchestral wines, and I am sure everyone agrees these are bombastic, invigorating and packed with excitement, a slender category of wines sing a solo tune and the purer, the better. These wines stop you in their tracks with their singular directness and…
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Vineyard Magazine – November 2024 – Have-a-go heroes

www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk The three wines inspire this story in this month’s column.  A few others could probably join this trio, but these three epitomise my resounding theme.  They do it with unwavering commitment, unshakable confidence, and unfathomable persistence, and they don’t need any support from the cheap seats. Sam Lindo bounded…
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Vineyard Magazine – October 2024 – More is More

www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk When I assemble a wine lineup for a corporate event, I always keep in mind the diverse palate of the audience.  I start with some classic styles and then add a couple of curve balls for that element of surprise.  There are always a few quiet wine experts in the crowd who deserve to be wowed by new and fascinating flavours…
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Vineyard Magazine – September 2024 – Whitewolfe – a sensational debut

www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk A great friend gave me a tip-off the other day about a new English wine brand.  This chap has a forensic palate, so I immediately followed up on this lead.  Wines are not always found at tastings, and this shows that the wine trade grapevine is every bit as valuable and sometimes much faster than doing the hard yards! …
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I am a lifelong fan of English wines and I am extremely proud to have been asked to contribute to Vineyard Magazine from the very first issue published in January 2018.   Vineyard is a monthly, specialist publication for viticulturalists and winemakers in Great Britain.  I write the only consumer-facing article in the magazine highlighting three terrific wines of particular interest, tying them together along a singular theme – www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk.