Guy Woodward: Language matters

I was corresponding recently with the human dynamo that is Laura Catena. Turns out the Argentinian winemaker is a big fan of this column.

Guy Woodward: The influence of ambience

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Guy Woodward: Flying in the face of trends

Not for me, Dry January. Nor will you catch me doing Veganuary. And I certainly won’t be downloading the new self-help podcast, streaming the latest must-see Scandi crime boxset or wearing Very Peri (aka lavender, Pantone’s colour of the year, which, according to the brand’s head of drivel, sorry, executive director, “represents the future”).

Guy Woodward: Should the wine trade bow to the cult of celebrity?

Guy Woodward: Chasing rainbows

Louis Roederer International Wine Columnist of the Year 2018

Guy Woodward: is using Champagne as a mixer a sin?

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Guy Woodward: Why low and no wine has a problem

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Guy Woodward: Why the trade should keep it simple

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Guy Woodward: Judging the winemaker, not just the wine

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Guy Woodward: Who’s gonna make wine woke?

Columnists are meant to have opinions. They’re meant to have answers. But there is one aspect of wine that I am at a loss to fathom. And that is the location of wine’s cool. Where is it? Who’s got it? Because no matter how you try to spin it, wine is simply not hip. It is not sick. And it is most certainly not, my homies, woke.

Guy Woodward: Fake wine "good for consumers". Are you kidding?

The Times, in its increasingly sensationalist manner, splashed another of those fatuous wine stories on page three the other day. “Cloned Frankenwines fool even experts”, was the loaded, somewhat clumsy headline.

Guy Woodward: Who is wine for?

Two months ago, I wrote a column on Majestic that was less than effusive in its appraisal of the UK’s biggest drinks retailer. The day after it was published, I received a phone call from the firm’s chief executive Rowan Gormley. It’s funny how our reliance on electronic forms of communication means that an unsolicited call now has added impact – a fact which I’m sure Gormley had in mind as he opened the call with a jokey threat of legal action.

Guy Woodward: Lobbing grenades at Majestic

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Guy Woodward: Substance versus style

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