The Wines of New Zealand: Book Reviews
It’s been a busy end of 2018 attending book signings and launching my new puzzle business Bamboozled Games.
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New Shared Workspace for Wine People Launched in Wellington
Wine Sentience to launch a wine professionals’ coworking hub in Wellington The Wine Sentience Hub is a coworking space for wine professionals who are visiting Wellington from around New Zealand and the world. “Our hub is the Wellington home base for travelling wine and hospitality folk,” said Wellington’s own Master of Wine and the owner/operator […]
Future Zine: Bordeaux en primeur report 2017
Hot off the press: a week after returning from a whirlwind tour of Bordeaux, tasting hundreds of barrel samples, you’ll find my latest en primeur report.
You’ll find a concise guide to the vintage, including an overview of the
growing season, exclusive quotes from the châteaux, a summary of the key appellations, tales of the unexpected, and …
Canvas Column Saturday December 2nd 2017
Yvonne Lorkin Canvas reviews Dec 2 2017 click here
The Wines of New Zealand
2017 has been incredibly busy writing magazine articles, working on my new business The Drinks Project and a soon-to-be-announced wine puzzle company that I will unwrap in 2018.
I’m also writing a book – nothing like taking on too much! Over the course of the next four months, I’ll be researching and writing a book for recently …
Rocks in the glass
There is a word whose use is causing growing unease among the wine community, and that’s ‘minerality’. Once upon a time the term was the darling of the wine press. Today, it has become an outcast, with some fearing that they will have to issue an apology for using it and abbreviating it to the …
Syrah the pick of Gimblett Gravels in 2014 vintage
The Gimblett Gravels might not be the most dramatic stretch of vineyard but looks aren’t everything: on this former river bed, the seemingly poor, stony land didn’t seem fit to grow anything. Occupied by a quarrying firm, a dragstrip and a rifle range, the Gimblett Road welcomed its first wine grower in 1981 who thought …
5 Bordeaux wines to buy from 2014
I’ve just uploaded all my tasting notes from the recent showing of the 2014 vintage from Bordeaux. It might not go down in history as a legendary vintage – unlike 2015, 2010, 2009, 2005 etc – but there are plenty of charming wines from both the Left and the Right Banks that I’d like …
The kingdom of Vinterfell
In the cold northern reaches of England, Darlington is a station that many have been through on the east coast mainline but never visited. Here, as the leaves are falling in the autumn of 2016, the seat of the vinous north has been established: Welcome to Vinterfell.
As the only Master of Wine in the 202 mile …
Champagne (and Moscato) for 13 new Masters of Wine
A year ago, I received the phone call saying: ‘you’ve passed your Research Paper and I’m delighted to welcome you to the Institute of Masters of Wine’ or something like that. It was lost in a blur of wet eyes, fist pumping and hysterical laughing.
Today, 13 new Masters of Wine in eight different countries …