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I’m Wink Lorch, wine writer, educator and editor. I live partly in London and partly in the French Alps, an hour from Geneva, and am a specialist in the wines of Jura and the French Alps.
Following successful funding on Kickstarter, in 2014 I wrote and self-published Jura Wine, the only book in English on the wines of the Jura, which won the best Drinks book in the André Simon Awards 2014. I published my bigger, long-awaited second book Wines of the French Alps: Savoie, Bugey and beyond in July 2019 and it has received rave reviews.
I have over 25 years of experience in wine education, tastings and presentations. I love to entertain groups about wine in a straight-forward, gently irreverent manner.
Just over a month after the new books finally arrived from the printer, copies of Wines of the French Alps: Savoie, Bugey and beyond have been sent out to wine lovers and wine professionals based in 29 countries around the world. This, my second book, is fast becoming known as the blue book, following on… View more
The most thoughtful Bugey vigneron, Patrick Charlin retired after the 2017 vintage having made wine for four decades; rather sadly, his children had no interest in taking over the estate. The following is the second excerpt from Wines of the French Alps: Savoie, Bugey and beyond, the forthcoming book by Wink Lorch and features a… View more
Meet Raphaël Bartucci: born of Italian immigrants, he was brought up in the Moselle region in eastern France. He collects fossils from the vineyards and displays them museum-style in the cosy tasting room below his house. The following is an excerpt from the Northern Bugey section of Wines of the French Alps: Savoie, Bugey and… View more
