Proof that people other than me think I should be writing about wine. These are the commissioned, in-print pieces, the ones an editor asked for. Have a read, and pour something worth drinking.
Japanese Wine, from Beaune to Tochigi
Wine and Spirits Club of India, Edition 51, pages 31 to 34
How a tasting in Beaune sent me all the way to a rain-soaked vineyard in Tochigi, and quietly rearranged what I think a great wine is allowed to be. On Koshu, Muscat Bailey A, and the little paper umbrellas tied over every grape bunch.
Nebbiolo Prima, into the Heart of Langhe and Roero
Liquid, Volume 4 Issue 4, Q4 2025, pages 44 to 46
My Liquid feature on Nebbiolo Prima, where Barolo, Barbaresco, and Roero play the same melody in three different voices. On blind tasting the region’s most iconic wines at their very beginning, and the people who make Piemonte worth returning to.
India-EU Trade Deal, a Turning Point for European Wineries
Wine and Spirits Club of India, Edition 54, pages 34 to 38
Why India has always been the market European producers talk about but rarely reach, and what genuinely shifts now that the trade deal has landed. Written from the odd and rather useful vantage point of an Indian professional working inside French wine.
Follador, Nine Generations of Bubbles
Wine and Spirits Club of India, Edition 58, pages 22 to 24
The story of a Prosecco house that opens its history not with a sunset photograph but with a Venetian decree, and has kept nine generations farming the same steep hills above Col San Martino.
Grands Jours de Bourgogne
Liquid, Volume 5 Issue 2, Q2 2026, pages 22 to 24
Inside the biennial gathering that pulls the wine trade to Bourgogne (Burgundy), from Grand Cru Pinot Noir tasted within the medieval walls of Clos de Vougeot to a gala dinner among the fermentation tanks at Château de Saint-Aubin. On the difficult, quietly defiant beauty of the 2024 vintage, and the single place card at the table that read India.
The Winedian Girl 