Interesting to look at current circulation figures for the leading national newspapers in the UK: Dailies The Sun 2,751,219 Daily Mail 2,011,283 Daily Mirror 1,122,563 The Daily Telegraph 596,180 Daily…
Are people interested in wine? The debate continues
Carrying on from last week’s blog post on whether or not terroir is relevant, I want to address another question that has been the focus of some twitter debate: are…
Authentic wine has been shortlisted for an award!
Great to see that Authentic Wine has been shortlisted for the Andre Simon awards. My last book, Wine Science, was also shortlisted, but lost out to Hugh Johnson’s Wine: a…
Is terroir relevant?
Some discussion on twitter at the moment about whether terroir is relevant to consumers. It’s all a bit daft really, because no one has defined who these consumers are, and…
Some great wines at today’s Majestic press tasting
I really enjoyed today’s small but perfectly formed Majestic press tasting, held in a stock room at their fine wine store in St John’s Wood. [As an aside, they have…
Some of my leading blog posts from the last year
The nature of a blog post is that it is somewhat ephemeral. Most blogs don’t encourage readers to hunt around the archive, even though there are tag clouds and category…
The importance of impartiality
For any wine critic or writer, impartiality is a non-negotiable. And I think that all wine writers realise this. So the real danger is not corruption, or obvious conflicts of…
What the wine industry can learn from Kodak
Look, I’m no business expert. But as an amateur photographer with a strong affection for Kodak, and particularly the Kodachrome film (deceased for some years), I think there are some…
Recently on the main wineanorak.com site
For the benefit of those of you who are blog visitors, but don’t get to the main wineanorak.com site, here’s what I posted there of late. Some people ask why…