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Interview with the Circle of Wine Writers

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Aug 21, 2015
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Simon in Weingut Tinhof's vineyards, above Kleinhoflein, Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria (Photo - Elisabeth Gstarz)

With apologies for the unusually narcissistic post, here is an interview I did for the Circle of Wine Writers quarterly magazine. I'm publishing it here in case people find it interesting to know a bit more about who's behind The Morning Claret.

Thanks to Wink Lorch who wrote the introduction, conducted the interview and allowed me to reproduce the content here.

WL: Simon has been a member of CWW for less than two years, but being not a person to sit on the sidelines he is already a committee member and the circle’s webmaster. English, but currently based in Amsterdam, he lives a double life with an IT job that pays a few more bills than his wine writing work does, I imagine. As most who have started to write about wine within the past decade, Simon began writing about wine online, with his own blog that he started in 2011 when he was living in London. Within a couple of years he was writing for PalatePress.com and TimAtkin.com and was shortlisted for the Louis Roederer Emerging Wine Wr…

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