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Published: 04 October, 2024
In an interview for 60 Minutes in 2004, the journalist Ed Bradley asked Bob Dylan if there was anything in his early work that surprised him. His Bobness looked pensive for a moment before quoting the beautiful opening lines of It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding). “I don’t know how I got to write those songs,” he said, “…they were almost magically written.” Did the muses still hum such poetry – the very stuff that earned Dylan the Nobel Prize for Literature – in his ear? Dylan shook his head. “You can’t do something for ever,” he replied. “I can do other things now, but I can’t do that.”
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Published: 03 October, 2024
Two contrasting news stories caught my attention last month. The first featured the largest ever gathering of the B Corp movement. Held in Oxford the B Corp Festival brought together people from a growing community of over 2000 UK companies who have embraced its key objective – that business should be a force for good. B stands for Benefit. The slogan is People, Planet, Profit. The ethos is that all stakeholders – internal and external – should benefit from what a business does and how it does it.
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Published: 01 October, 2024
The head of Salcombe Distilling Co reveals the origins of an innovative new barrel-ageing project, by Jo Gilbert.
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Published: 24 September, 2024
Having tripled turnover to €100m in less than a decade, Philip Cox explains to Andrew Catchpole why he’s now further investing in the future of Romania’s biggest winery.
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Published: 19 September, 2024
Jason Millar tastes his way through the varieties of Barolo to find great strength in the obscure.
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Published: 17 September, 2024
Columnist and communicator Libby Brodie of Bacchus & Brodie makes a persuasive case for embracing all platforms that promote wine’s appeal.
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Published: 12 September, 2024
I copped a bit of flak recently for heading to Spain for the global launch of Dom Pérignon’s 2015 vintage, rather than attending the London bash. It’s a fair cop. Though if you felt a 48-hour London-to-Barcelona jaunt was indulgent, you should have seen the press corps from Japan, Korea and the US. I trust there was plenty of carbon-offsetting to cover those business-class flights…
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Published: 10 September, 2024
Seamus Sharkey gives Andrew Catchpole a taste of his role at the colourful restaurant group that is JKS.
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Published: 03 September, 2024
Andrew Catchpole catches up with Sandro Gini, who, along with brother Claudio, heads up this winemaking family which traces its viticultural history back to the 16th century.
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Published: 29 August, 2024
It has been a great summer for sports enthusiasts. The football Euros in Germany were followed by a captivating Olympics in Paris. Footballers and Olympians were razor focused on achieving their best and produced amazing displays. The winners went home with a medal. But what does life hold for them afterwards?
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Published: 27 August, 2024
Cristina Paunoiu is the co-owner of Wine Chateau, a retailer and wholesaler focused on Moldovan wine in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. Jo Gilbert spoke to her about an unlikely wine venture.
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Published: 19 August, 2024
Firmly orbiting in the fine wine firmament, AXA Millésimes MD Christian Seely talks to Andrew Catchpole about his early inspiration and the philosophy it subsequently shaped.
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Published: 15 August, 2024
Jason Millar considers the future stars of Puglia on a trip to Radici del Sud.
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Published: 13 August, 2024
67 Pall Mall’s Grant Ashton shares his ambitious expansion plans for his swish wine clubs with Andrew Catchpole.
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Published: 08 August, 2024
Writing a weekly column about wine for a national newspaper isn’t easy. I’ve been there, done that, for 21 years. Keeping each article fresh is challenging. Some journalists don’t bother, but Fiona Beckett did. That’s why I was sad to read she was retiring from The Guardian after 14 years in the post. Fiona always tried to say something new, to encourage her readers to experiment and trade up.
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Published: 06 August, 2024
Wine & Spirit Trade Association CEO Miles Beale shares his optimism that the new government will listen to the trade.
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Luca Marrone, chief winemaker for Grattamacco, discusses the journey of Bolgheri Superiore from 1991 to 2021, focusing on its balance of innovation and tradition.
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With Penfolds celebrating its 180th anniversary this year, chief winemaker Peter Gago talks exclusively to Jo Gilbert about the iconic wine producer’s past, present and future.
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During the 1990’s my business sold millions of bottles of great value Hungarian wines to the UK’s supermarkets. The wines were made under the guidance of a young Australian winemaker whose hands on approach ensured they bristled with ripe fruit flavours. Retailing at the equivalent of £6-£8 at today’s prices they went down a storm in the high-volume part of the burgeoning wine market.
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Jason Millar gets serious about the upper end of a popular category.
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