Matt Walls is Regional Chair for the Rhône at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) 2025.
Matt Walls
Matt Walls is an award-winning freelance wine writer and consultant, contributing regular articles to various print and online titles including Decanter, where he is a contributing editor.
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Matt Walls: my top wines of 2022
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Exploring the Northern Rhône with Matt Walls
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Hermitage 2021: report and top-scoring wines
In addition to writing, Walls advises restaurants on wine lists, hosts tastings and judges at food and wine competitions.
He was previously fine wine manager at UK importer Mentzendorff and set up, managed, and bought wines for the flagship store of London’s The Sampler.
Matt writes about all areas of wine but specialises in the Rhône. His latest book, Wines of the Rhône, was shortlisted for an André Simon Food & Drink Book Award.
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