By Rose Murray Brown MW    Published in The Scotsman 6 June 2026 Some people when they achieve fame and glory sit back and enjoy it, whilst others keep constantly questioning what they are doing, changing and improving.  I would put Eben Sadie of The Sadie Family Wines, one of the world’s greatest winemakers and certainly South Africa’s finest,

By Rose Murray Brown MW  Published in The Scotsman 9th May 2026   Polish winemaker Kamil Barczentewicz, a key figure in the new growth of Poland’s modern wine industry, focuses entirely on classic grapes, rather than hybrids.   At such a northerly latitude, many of Poland’s 730 winnica (wineries) rely on hardy hybrids like white Solaris or Johanniter and red

By Rose Murray Brown MW   Published in The Scotsman 18 April 2026 “Chenin Blanc is now back in fashion – and is having ‘a bit of a moment’”, announced Fergal Tynan MW of Alliance Wine at the start of his Terroir and Technique Chenin Blanc Masterclass held in Edinburgh recently. “In particular the quality of Chenin Blanc wines from