Guy Woodward: LVMH and the cult of personality

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…

Analysis: Playing down the UK wine hype

Is the UK trade over-hyping the home-grown wine ‘boom’? Jo Gilbert explains why the industry needs to tread carefully.

Harpers’ columnist Guy Woodward launches Grand Cru Creative

Harpers’ columnist Guy Woodward is embarking on a new venture, introducing his creative agency aimed at crafting compelling content for wine and spirit brands.

Guy Woodward: The perils of eco-friendly embellishment

I spent Christmas in South Carolina, to where my wife’s parents have just moved after three decades in Colorado. What with the new home and the festive season, there was much to celebrate. All of which, naturally, called for a special bottle.

Analysis: Critical thinking

From traditional print critics to social’s influencers, by way of encroaching AI, David Kermode weighs up the evolution of the critic.

Guy Woodward: Language matters

Of the many acerbic lines I heard on a recent visit to Australia (winemakers really are a different breed there – in a good way), few matched the pithiness of those delivered by Dave Bicknell.

Antipodean challenger

With Pinot-philes increasingly expanding their horizons, Guy Woodward assesses Australia’s offer at its Pinot Noir Celebration.

Guy Woodward: On growing into wine

Our trade is not prone to hysteria, but there has been a pronounced bout of bedwetting recently. The cause? Studies showing how the younger generation is turning away from wine, with commentators quick to respond via apocryphal prophecies of doom if the industry doesn’t better engage with millennials.

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: Next-level wine tastings are aiming to for the A-list

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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”).

Atkin in running for Roederer Award for Harpers column

Tim Atkin MW has been shortlisted by the prestigious Roederer Awards for work in Harpers, being nominated under the Mazzei International Wine Columnist of the Year category.

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

Guy Woodward: Why the trade should keep it simple

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Guy Woodward: Judging the winemaker, not just the wine

GUY WOODWARD, Louis Roederer International Wine Columnist of the Year 2018

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: Nyetimber’s gift to the industry

Guy Woodward, Louis Roederer International Wine Columnist of the Year 2018

Harpers columnist Woodward wins International Wine Columnist award

Harpers columnist Guy Woodward was awarded the International Wine Columnist gong at the prestigious Louis Roederer International Wine Awards last night.

Harpers regulars Atkin and Woodward go ‘mano a mano’ for International Wine Columnist Award

With only two weeks to go until the 4 September final of the prestigious Louis Roederer International Wine Awards, Harpers columnists Tim Atkin MW and Guy Woodward are among the hopeful writers awaiting the final judging decisions.