Vintage Crime: The darker side of wine
A new book exploring the darker side of wine...
Rebecca Gibb MW is a wine journalist and editor who has also founded Bamboozled games, ‘the world’s first wine and spirit puzzle makers’. Having spent six years living in New Zealand, she has recently returned to her native north-east England. While in New Zealand, she became a Master of Wine, graduating top of her class and winning the Madame Bollinger medal for excellence in tasting. A former winner of both the UK’s young wine writer of the year and the Louis Roederer Emerging Wine Writer, her first book The Wines of New Zealand was published in 2018. She also runs wine events and has her own consultancy business The Drinks Project. She was a judge at the 2019 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).
A new book exploring the darker side of wine...
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‘A lot of personality and not as much polish.’
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Rebecca Gibb MW picks out 12 great examples of Sauvignon Blanc from around the world...
Talk legacies and future prospects...
Some 'sublime' examples...
Some of the Loire's best dry Chenins...
Fresh, fragrant and characterful...
Getting to grips with the 2016 vintage...
There is a clear vintage expression in these wines...
Can these biodynamic wines stand the test of time?...
Within spitting distance of Ata Rangi's other vineyards...
Explore the unspoilt beauty of New Zealand’s wine regions…
A wine of real style and plenty of ambition...
See what our experts thought of New Zealand's 'other' grape varieties...
Fifteen red wine picks from the 2016 vintage...
Sauvignon Blanc 'with the volume turned down'...
15 mature New Zealand wines for drinking now...
Find out more about this sparkling wine...