
Rebecca Gibb MW
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).
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Investment analysis August 2011
Burgundy: a one-horse race?
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Smaller UK wine retailers bullish about 2009
Small, independent wine chains are optimistic about their prospects for 2009 after a healthy Christmas campaign, with some planning to expand in the next year.
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Vineyards ‘fall apart’ in South Australia
Growers in South Australia have been forced to harvest early as the current heatwave hits the vineyards.
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Douro Boy invests millions in winery, vineyard
A prominent Douro producer is defying the global downturn by investing more than €7m in a new winery and vineyards.
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Port sales continue to fall
Port exports hit a five-year low in 2008, with the global economy being blamed for the fall.
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Joanna Simon leaves Sunday Times
The Sunday Times wine columnist Joanna Simon has left the newspaper after 22 years.
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Australian protectionist bill dropped
A South Australian MP has dropped his plan to introduce a private member’s bill urging Australians to drink Australian wine, following widespread condemnation.
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Tributes paid to Peter and Penny Duff
The executive president of the International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC) and his wife have committed suicide together in Switzerland.
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Mondavi Taste3 forum pulled amid recession
Tough economic times have forced Robert Mondavi to put its wine and food conference, Taste3, on hold.
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UK merchants neglect California
California wines are 'woefully under-represented' by UK independent merchants, the UK head of Wines of California has said.
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Majestic snaps up Lay & Wheeler
Leading UK chain Majestic wine has bought wine merchant Lay & Wheeler for £6 million.
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Boost for Argentinian wine industry
The Argentinian wine industry has welcomed a 50% cut in wine export duty.
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Fat Duck open
Heston Blumenthal’s restaurant The Fat Duck has reopened today.
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Saint-Emilion classification ditched
The 2006 Saint Emilion classification will be scrapped, the French Court of Appeal has ruled.
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Coonawarra wineries condemn road proposal
Coonawarra wine producers threatened by a proposed bypass road have backed legal action against the scheme.
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Foster’s puts vineyards up for sale
Drinks giant Foster's has put 31 Australian vineyards on the market despite tough conditions.
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New Cru Bourgeois scheme gathers momentum
Bordeaux’s Alliance Cru Bourgeois has taken another step towards launching a new classification scheme.
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Montes to produce wines in the Douro
Leading Chilean producer Montes is set to produce wines in the Douro.
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Vergelegen estimates £1m damage from bushfires
South African winery Vergelegen said it has suffered at least £1m of damage from bushfires earlier this year.
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Mosel bridge opponents lobby German chancellor
Opponents of a planned road bridge and motorway through some of the Mosel’s finest vineyards have made a last ditch appeal to the German Chancellor.
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Zork launches resealable sparkling closure
A bottle of sparkling wine will retain its fizz for several days after opening with a new resealable closure.
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Yarra Valley loses $8m fruit
More than AUS$8m of fruit was lost during the 2009 heatwave and bushfires in the Yarra Valley.
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Berry Bros & Rudd to launch online trading platform
Fine wine merchant Berry Bros & Rudd is set to launch an online trading platform.
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Fine+Rare goes live with online valuation
London wine broker Fine+Rare has launched a new web tool allowing the public to value their wine portfolios at the click of a button.
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