MWs vs MS taste-off: Wines with steak and seafood
Can the MWs rescue some pride against the Master Sommeliers?
Tina Gellie has worked for Decanter since 2008 and is the brand's Content Editor as well as Regional Editor for the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. An awarded wine writer and editor, she also won several scholarships on the way to getting her WSET Diploma, and is a freeman of The Worshipful Company of Distillers. She has worked in wine publishing since 2003, including as Deputy Editor and Acting Editor of Wine International. Before her wine career she was a newspaper journalist for broadsheets in London and Australia.
Can the MWs rescue some pride against the Master Sommeliers?
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There are not too many New World Chardonnay producers confident enough to submit their wines for a blind tasting against top white Burgundy. But Kumeu River, from Auckland in New Zealand, is one of them, discovers Tina Gellie.
Many have dismissed natural wine as a fad; a movement followed only by bearded kale-eating hipsters, and one which will peter out as soon as the next cool thing comes along.
Despite talk about Riesling coming back and ‘trendy’ varieties like Picpoul de Pinet and Fiano taking over from Pinot Grigio and Chardonnay in high street wine bars, Sauvignon Blanc is still a big hitter - and the most popular white wine variety in the UK. Here's 10 wines from New Zealand's 2014 vintage to try.
There’s no such thing as 'anything but Chardonnay', Bruce Cakebread tells Decanter's associate editor, Tina Gellie. And even if there were such a phenomenon, the president of Napa Valley’s Cakebread Cellars says he wouldn’t worry too much.
As you sip away at your glass of Rioja, do you ever consider the steps that led to your enjoyment of it? Decanter's associate editor, Tina Gellie, recently turned winemaker for the day to put her blending skills to the test.
At the London launch of Casa Ferreirinha’s Reserva Especial 2007, we caught up with Luis Sottomayor, the winemaker of both this renowned Douro wine and arguably Portugal’s most famous table wine, Barca Velha.
Decanter contributor Wink Lorch has won the Andre Simon Best Drink Book of 2014 for her crowd-funded book Jura Wine.