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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.
My latest book, Jura Wine Ten Years On, was released for sale in early September following deliveries to Kickstarter supporters. The book is a companion volume to my award-winning Jura Wine book, published a decade ago in 2014. The latter still sells very well around the world being the only truly comprehensive book on the… View more
With a plethora of wine podcasts, webinars and even dedicated TV channels emerging during and since the Covid lockdowns, as well as an upsurge of Instagram ‘wine influencers’, one might ask, is there still a space for good wine writing, does it even exist? Emphatically, yes it does. But life for the wine writer is… View more
Jura and Savoie have been far from spared the ravages of 2021, although there have been glimmers of sunlight amidst the gloom. In some ways the vignerons have been stretched to breaking-point, especially in Jura, by a succession of disasters. Lovers of these regions can only watch with dismay and sympathy, keep drinking their wines… View more
