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Category Archives: Wine Writing
Building a Wine Library (Part 1)
Owning a wine library, however small, is something I guess the majority of serious wine lovers have, or aspire to. By serious wine lovers, I don’t of course mean lovers of so-called serious wines. Building a wine library, in the … Continue reading
Posted in Amber Wine, Geology and Wine, Minerals and Wine, Natural Wine, orange wine, Regenerative Viticulture, Viticulture, Wine, Wine Books, Wine Science, Wine Writing
Tagged Alex Maltman Taste the Limestone Smell the Slate, Books on Natural Wine, Building a Wine Library (Part 1), Camilla Gjerde Natural Trailblazers, Hugh Johnson The Story of Wine, Jamie Goode and Wine Science, Jamie Goode Regenerative Viticulture, One Thousand Vines book, Pascaline Lepeltier One Thousand Vines, Simon J Woolf Amber Revolution, Wine Books, Wine Writing, World Atlas of Wine
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More from Paradise Lost – Alex Diggins’s Article in The Observer
Back in June 2021 I wrote an article called Paradise Lost, about the deaths from suicide of two highly regarded winemakers in France. The article was difficult to write at the time. Both men were favourite producers of mine, and … Continue reading
Regenerative Viticulture 2nd Edition by Jamie Goode (Book Review)
Back in 2022 Jamie Goode published a small but significant little book, Regenerative Viticulture. It detailed what was then a relatively new concept, based around a realisation that viticulture in its current form was depleting the soils in which the … Continue reading
Posted in Geology and Wine, Grape Varieties, Natural Wine, Viticulture, Wine, Wine and Health, Wine Books, Wine Science, Wine Writing
Tagged Agroecology, Agroforestry (viticulture), Animals in the Vineyard, Compacted Soils (Vineyard), Composting and Biochar, Copper Toxicity in the Vineyard, Cover Crops (viticulture), Dead Soils (Vineyard), Disease Resistant Grape Varieties, Dr Jamie Goode Author, Goode Regenerative Viticulture, Goode Regenerative Viticulture 2nd Edition 2025, Hybrid Grape Varieties, Microbial Activity (Vineyards), New Grape Varieties Against Fungal Diseases, Permaculture Approaches in Viticulture, Pilzwiderstandsfähige, PIWI grape varieties, Regenerative Hydrology, Regenerative Viticulture, Regenerative Viticulture Book Review, Soil Carbon in Viticulture, sustainability, Sustainability (wine production), Sustainable Viticulture, Vineyard Biodiversity, Weed control and no-till viticulture, Wine
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Review of the Year 2025
My Review of the Year is really my time for a little self-indulgence. My Wines of the Year come later, maybe next year, making sure I don’t drink a killer wine after I’ve put finger to keypad and pressed the … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Review of the Year, Wine, Wine Books, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings, Wine Writing
Tagged And The Roots of Rhythm Remain, Blind Summit Whisky, Books, Clay Wine Fair 2025, Communiqué Wines Edinburgh, Cork & Cask Wine Fairs, Most read articles wideworldofwine.co, Murakami The City and its Uncertain Walls, Nusantara Beat (albums of the year), Records and Gigs of the Year Wideworldofwine, Review of the Year 2025, Swiss Wines, The Overview Steven Wilson (albums of 2025), Wideworldofwine Review of the Year 2025, Wine Book of the Year
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The Wines of Beaujolais by Natasha Hughes (Book Review)
Two book reviews in a row. I hope that isn’t too much, but with that gift-giving season fast approaching I wanted to get this out there in plenty of time. The Wines of Beaujolais by Natasha Hughes is one of … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Beaujolais, Nepal, Wine, Wine Books, Wine Tourism, Wine Travel, Wine Writing
Tagged Academie du Vin Library, Beaujolais by Natasha Hughes, Beaujolais Crus, Beaujolais in the 1980s, Book on Beaujolais, Current Issues in Beaujolais, Natasha Hughes MW, New Wine Book 2025, Small Negociants in Beaujolais, The Wines of Beaujolais Book Review, Visiting Beaujolais, Where is Beaujolais Heading?, Wine writing, Wine Writing
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The Smart Traveller’s Wine Guide – Rhône Valley by Matt Walls (Review)
As this is the fourth of these Smart Traveller’s Wine Guides I have read and reviewed, you will probably surmise that I am rather taken with them. They are portable, quite inexpensive, and offer the wine lover not only some … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Fine Wine, Restaurants, Rhone, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Books, Wine Shops, Wine Tourism, Wine Travel, Wine Writing
Tagged Academie du Vin autumn 2025, Avignon accommodation and dining, Lyon accommodation and dining, Matt Walls Author, Matt Walls Rhône, Rhône Dining, Smart Traveller's Wine Guide Rhône Valley, Smart Traveller's Wine Guides Series, Travel Guide Rhône Valley Appellations and Satellites, Wine Shops Rhone Valley, Wine Travel Guide Rhône, Wineries to visit Rhône Valley & satellites
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Wines of the Loire Valley by Beverley Blanning MW (Book Review)
As someone who has been a bit of a wine obsessive for a number of decades, I find that things, in this case a more than average interest in any particular wine region, come around in cycles. The world of … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Loire, Wine, Wine Books, Wine Travel, Wine Writing
Tagged Académie du Vin Library, Beverley Blanning MW, Blanning Wines of the Loire Valley 2024, Grapes of the Loire, Loire Valley Wines, Loire Wine Book, Loire Wines, Top Loire Wine Producers, Wine Books, Wine writing, Wines of the Loire Valley (Book Review)
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 