
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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New Zealand Wine Company ‘significant loss’
The New Zealand Wine Company has multimillion dollar losses for 2011 - a sign of the wider financial malaise facing the country’s wine industry.
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Treasury cites ‘deep discounting’ break for sales drop
Treasury Wine Estates, the wine division of brewing giant Foster's, has reported a fall in sales volumes in its first year as a standalone operation.
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Abolish WET tax, major Australian producers urge government
In a bid to reduce Australia's wine glut two of the country's major players are calling for the abolition of the WET tax.
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New Zealand wine producers assess wine loss on stricken ship
The container ship that ran aground on a reef off New Zealand's North Island last week contained at least 4000 cases of wine.
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Ferran Adria, Ducasse, Robuchon lend support to wine origin campaign
The world's leading chefs and sommeliers have given their support to a coalition calling for truth in wine labelling.
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Burgundy ‘sizzles’ in Hong Kong as top Bordeaux falls below estimates
Top Bordeaux wines including Lafite-Rothschild failed to achieve their lowest estimates at a recent Hong Kong wine auction - while Burgundy hit new heights.
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Hong Kong mid-market ‘strong and solid’
Hong Kong is no longer a 'bipolar market', according to new research by Master of Wine Debra Meiburg.
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Australia grubbing up programme ‘too slow’ and too little
Wine bosses in Australia are frustrated by the slow progress of the country's vine removal programme, with around half the projected amount of vines being grubbed up since 2009.
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Gaming billionaire ups stake in Treasury Wine Estates
Casino and gaming billionaire James Packer has increased his stake in the world's second largest wine producer, Treasury Wine Estates.
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Critics see red over early Brunello previews
Previews of the 2007 Brunello di Montalcino vintage for the 'privileged few' have sparked fury among wine critics and bloggers.
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Consumers pay more for tongue-twisting wines
Wine tastes better if a winery is difficult to pronounce, according to new research.
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Cava exports hit all-time high
Record Cava exports have brightened up the Spanish sparkling wine's bleak domestic market in 2011.
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New Zealand heading for shortage in 2012
New Zealand expects a small 2012 vintage, which is likely to put the brakes on its decade-long growth spurt.
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