
Amanda Barnes
Decanter Magazine & DWWA Judge
Amanda Barnes is an award-winning wine journalist and expert in South American wines and regions. Based in Mendoza since 2009 she is a regular South America correspondent, critic and writer for Decanter, as well as other international wine publications, and she is the author and editor of the South America Wine Guide. She has been awarded by Born Digital Wine Awards, Millesima Blog Awards, Great Wine Capitals Best Of and Young Wine Writer of the Year. She has received a fellowship from the Wine Writers Symposium, a scholarship for the Wine Bloggers Conference, and the Geoffrey Roberts Award. She was a judge at the 2019 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).
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Uco Valley winery O Fournier sold
For an undisclosed amount...
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‘English Sparkling' becomes a new lick of paint
Following a collaboration with Laithwaite's Wine...
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Pairing Spanish wines: From the sommeliers
Advice from the experts...
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Top five harvest festivals in South America
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Santa Rita replanting - a clean sweep
What would lead Santa Rita, one of Chile’s biggest and most famous names, to pull up hundreds of hectares of its vines? Amanda Barnes reveals the wisdom behind the Casa Real producer’s radical next steps
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How to pair Californian wines – from the sommeliers
We get the advice...
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Insider’s guide to eating and drinking in California
We ask the sommeliers and winemakers...
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Deadly fires hit wine regions in Spain and Portugal
Devastating fires claim lives and damage vines...
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South American wine trends: From the sommeliers
What’s the next big trend in South American wine?
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Travel: Three 'Casonas' in Chilean wine country
Explore Chile's wine country...
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La Niña brings hot and early 2017 harvest for Chile
The year has kept winemakers on their toes...
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A small but promising vintage for Argentina 2017
A fantastic harvest in terms of quality...
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China is now Chile's most lucrative wine export market
Chinese consumers develop thirst for Chilean wine...
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Heavy rainfall in California 'is a blessing'
After five years of drought...
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Chile fires: 100-year-old vines lost in 'national catastrophe'
Vineyards lost in 'national catastrophe'...
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Fires threaten vineyards in Chile's Colchagua Valley
Chilean vineyards put on 'red alert'...
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Breakthrough may save Cabernet Sauvignon from climate change
Scientists close to cracking Cabernet genetic code...
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California & North America 2016 harvest report
Amanda Barnes rounds up the action so far...
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Rain means Chile 2016 vintage 'more like Bordeaux'
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El Nino hampers Argentina's 2016 wine harvest
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And the Best Sommelier in the World competition winnner is...
Read on to see who has won...