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Vineyard – January 2020 – Fine Wine Finally

Vineyard - January 2020 Fine Wine Finally www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk We live in an era of wanting and getting generic ‘stuff’ delivered to our home without delay.  Purchases which, in the pre-internet days, might have taken weeks to order and arrive now take hours.  I am grateful to companies who deliver boxes of photocopy paper to my door…
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Vineyard – December 2019 – Wines to watch in 2020

Vineyard December 2019 Wines to watch in 2020 www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk It has been fun.  2019 was a year of huge upheaval in the UK wine scene with a difficult harvest this autumn, a lot of wine swilling around thanks to last year’s 2018s bumper crop, a large number of new labels popping up and feverish new plantings being slammed into the ground…
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Vineyard – November 2019 – How to Launch

Vineyard November 2019 How to Launch www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk As a wine writer who tastes tens of thousands of bottles a year, I am invited to my fair share of launches.  From a wine PR’s point of view, launches are their bread and butter, alerting communicators to new releases.  But I can tell you that, from the other side of the fence, these…
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Vineyard – October 2019 – Sign on the bottom line

Vineyard October 2019 - Sign on the bottom line Contract Winemaking www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk Yawn, contract winemaking.  Surely this is one of the dullest sectors of our industry?  But no – it is a vibrant and vital division of the English wine scene and there is a liberal dusting of stardust in the air making some of these hook-ups more than…
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Vineyard – September 2019 – Highlights from WineGB’s tasting

Vineyard September  2019 - Highlights from WineGB's tasting www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk The first week of September was a busy one and it started with a bang – the annual South African wine tasting had everyone scratching their heads.  It was by far and away the best line-up of Cape wines ever seen on our shores.  It seemed as if every single…
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Vineyard – August 2019 – Beauty is not always label-deep

Vineyard August 2019 - Beauty is not always label-deep www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk One of the most exciting things about sitting in a Parisian café and watching the world go by is the amateur sport of people-watching.  For some reason, Paris is my favourite place to play this lazy, sometimes cruel and often unexpectedly funny ‘sport’.  Fashion…
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Vineyard – July 2019 – Class System

Vineyard July 2019 - Class System  www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk I love the old ‘The Frost Report’ sketch, ‘I know my place’.   If you are familiar with it, then this month’s article will make perfect sense.  If you are not, I urge you to search for it and marvel at the minimalist script and the perfect delivery of their lines from John…
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Vineyard – June 2019 – Urban Jungle

Vineyard June 2019 - Urban Jungle www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk  It’s not a new thing – urban wineries.  There are some superb examples in Australia where the fruit comes into the wineries from hours and sometimes days away and they manage to make epic wine.  It’s not a question of transporting grapes – we know how to do this.  London Cru…
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Vineyard – May 2019 – Save the Wales

Vineyard May 2019 - Save the Wales www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk As the old joke goes, wag one asks, ‘What time is it in New Zealand?’, wag two replies, ‘About 20 years behind Australia’.  I have decided to write about Welsh wines this month and I refuse to adapt this joke as much as I am sorely tempted to.   It was easy enough to find three…
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Vineyard – April 2019 – Under the Radar

Vineyard April 2019 - Under the Radar www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk The expression ‘under the radar’ conjures up rather exciting images in my mind.  Undercover, covert, stealthy, clandestine or indeed enigmatic, if you are a winery or a wine merchant who operates under the radar then you could be knowingly employing some very enviable marketing…
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Vineyard – March 2019 – Rebels with a Cause

Vineyard - March 2019 Rebels With A Cause www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk I love this definition of a non-conformist - a person who does not conform to prevailing ideas or practices in their behaviour or views.  Rebels are seemingly even more attractive – someone who fights authority.  We have a good few wineries and individuals in our wine business…
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Vineyard – February 2019 – By The Glass

Vineyard - February 2019 By The Glass – the three magic words www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk  Would you like to sell one thousand bottles of wine to one person or one thousand bottles to one thousand different people?  Your bank account will have the same amount of cash in it, but your future bank balance will be static in one account while you wait…
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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.