Brightly coloured bottles and cans line our shelves, promising a whole gamut of flavours. From its humble beginnings as a rebel response to the USA's hugely conglomerated brewery sector in the 1970s, the scene has come of age. To an extent this is true, but I retain a healthy scepticism about this or any other niche.Ĭraft beer has exploded onto our palates over the last decade. Some would pigeon-hole me as a 'natural wine' specialist. Any time left over is spent as a keen amateur cook, vinyl obsessive (music, not carpets) and explorer of Amsterdam's restaurant, wine and craft beer scenes.Īlong the way, I picked up an obsession for orange wines, regular commissions from Decanter magazine, and the privilege of getting to know many beautiful parts of the world where wine is made. My other career as an IT consultant does a slightly better job of paying the bills than wine. It must have got a bit out of control because, six years later, I appear to be doing this as a career.ĭuring that time, life also took me from London, via Austria, to Amsterdam, where I now live. It looked a bit silly on its own, so I thought I'd better write some more.
The Morning Claret, aka The World's Least Influential Wine Blog, opened for business in January 2011, with the entry I'd (unsuccessfully) submitted to the competition as the single post. Were it not for a previous writing competition judged by Jancis, I would never have started writing about wine, let alone entertain thoughts of doing it professionally.
Number 21 in our ongoing series of entries to our wine writing competition comes from Simon Woolf, who tells us:
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