Leona De Pasquale is a judge at the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) Leona De Pasquale Leona is a London-based Taiwanese wine educator, writer and translator. She is also the Director and Chief Educator of Camellia and Vine, a wine and tea event and training company in London. She began her wine career in 2003, working in Taiwan before …
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Anne Jones is a judge at the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA). Anne JonesAnne Jones Anne is an experienced wine professional with her own consultancy specialising in sustainability, but also covering brand, marketing and commercial strategy. Having joined the wine and spirits buying team at Waitrose in 2008 she has extensive tasting experience within retail and also as a …
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Eleftherios Hanialidis MS is a judge at the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA). DWWA Judge, Eleftherios Hanialidis MSEleftherios Hanialidis MS Eleftherios Hanialidis began his career in the hospitality industry in 2001 and has since worked extensively as a head sommelier, as well as a consultant for restaurants, wine bars, and wine retail stores. In August 2023, he achieved the …
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The range of wines available at Westwood For his entire life, businessman Carl Stanton, the owner of Westwood Estate Wine, had sought the undiscovered. When he set his sights on finding a piece of untamed earth among prime vineyard land in northern California wine country, it didn’t take him long to hit pay dirt. A 33-acre plot of land in …
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The post Gifts to Wine Lovers From on (Mile) High (Winning Wines From the 2024 CO Governor’s Cup) appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. The Colorado winemaking scene must be in a seasonally generous mood: it’s got plenty of gifts to bring to all you good little wine lovers out there. This past summer, I was fortunate enough to have …
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Far-flung from the western heartland of Germany’s better-known wine regions, Saale-Unstrut and Sachsen are respectively, its most northerly and easterly wine regions. Saale-Unstrut, stretching above the northern 51st parallel – alongside London and Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan – teeters at the northern limits of quality viticulture. Sachsen, just two hours east and a touch south by car, extends as …
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Hello and welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I post them to my magazine on Flipboard, but for those of you who aren’t Flipboard-inclined, here’s everything I’ve strained out of the wine-related muck for the week. FTC Sues Southern Glazer’s for Illegal Price DiscriminationThis ain’t just about “volume discounts” no …
Read More »Plum and cherry flavors are shaded by wild scrub and crisp tannins in this compact red. The balance is on the tannic side today, yet there’s ample length, so give this a year or two to settle in. Best from 2026 through 2038. 36,000 cases made, 3,500 cases imported. Source : f35a168b2e189d6abf0606be2b219bfa
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Sylvia at the Kozlovi? winery tasting its Malvasia IstrianaSylvia Wu Editor Decanter China, and Regional Editor for Asia, Northern & Eastern Europe As Decanter’s ‘rest of world’ Regional Editor, this year I had the pleasure of visiting some unusual yet fascinating wine regions and discovering the unexpected. In China, during my first return to Ningxia since 2019, my top discovery …
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I love holidays, and they’re on my mind, and everyone else’s, right now. All I can think of is right now is, “A December to Remember Wines,” when you reading my blog post. My message is coupled with writing and tasting wines, right here at my desk. Christmas and Hanukkah Stars I’m pretty thrilled […] The post December to …
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