The Sunday Times wine columnist Joanna Simon has left the newspaper after 22 years.

Simon will stop writing her column at the end of March, but will continue writing cookery articles for the newspaper’s Style magazine.

Simon expressed sadness at her departure but added ‘it was good while it lasted’.

She told decanter.com the highlight of her time with newspaper was the publication of the Sunday Times Book of Wine in 2001.

She will continue to write for publications including Decanter, Classic FM, Waitrose Food Illustrated and for the online publication The Wine Gang, which she helped launch.

Written by Rebecca Gibb

Rebecca Gibb MW
Rebecca Gibb MW
Decanter Magazine & DWWA Judge

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).