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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. I am the author of three books.
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 followed up in 2024 with a companion volume, Jura Wine Ten Years On. In 2019, I published my comprehensive book on French Alpine wines: Wines of the French Alps: Savoie, Bugey and beyond, which won an OIV book prize. All of my books have been very well reviewed.
I have over 35 years of experience in presenting wine tastings and giving wine presentations to both professionals and wine lovers. I love to entertain groups about wine in a straight-forward, gently irreverent manner.
In the past few months the unusual Savoyard grape Persan attracted attention from American wine lovers in New York and from Vinocamp – the French social media and wine meet-ups. It’s as if there is a rare Alpine grape ripple effect, or perhaps a wonderful spider’s web in which wine professionals and geeks tiptoe around… View more
The new Wine Grapes book by Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding and José Vouillamoz is now weighing down my book shelf, or more often grappling for space on my desk or dining room table. However, I have resisted taking this heavy tome on the plane to Turkey where I have come in advance of EWBC 2012…. View more
When 15 years ago the owners of the Cottanera wine estate in Sicily’s Etna region discovered they had been sent 14,000 vines of Mondeuse as part of a consignment of French varieties purchased from a French vine nursery, they were not well pleased. After all, no-one knew then that Mondeuse was a close relative to… View more
