Secret Sommelier is wine reporting website run by Nick Breeze with a particular focus on contemporary wine production and consumption.
Nick Breeze is a professional journalist and author based in London, working specifically in the fields of wine and climate change. Aside from regularly tasting and writing up reviews of wines and regions, Nick is constantly looking for contemporary factors that influence the taste of wine and how it received by consumers.
In recent years due to fluctuations in climate and the overall warming of the atmosphere, climate change has become a much more prevalent consideration in wine production. The profound effect that climate change is having on wine, on production, as well as perception and consumption, make it a key element of the reporting on Secret Sommelier. Nick is also
Nick Breeze on Portuguese TV, Climate Change Leadership For The Wine Industry Conference in 2019 (click here for conference interviews) |
We also have a whole category dedicated to Wine and Climate Change for posting regular content on this subject.
The frontlines of production and consumption are where Nick will be focused throughout 2019 and beyond, with new reporting carefully identifying connections between these two ends of the industry.
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Nick is also a judge for The Drinks Business Sustainability Awards, as well as a Drinks Business article contributor. He is also on the committee of the Cambridge Climate Lecture Series and writes about climate change for The Ecologist.
Nick also collaborates with the Wines Of Alentejo Sustainability Programme (WASP) in Portugal to communicate the innovative work of certified producers working in the Alentejo region.
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Ribeira Sacra, Wines of Galicia: Heroic Viticulture in the Cañón do Sil
We rolled out the rug on a small patch of grass etched between the steep cascade of Roman terraces, with neat lines of vines both rising above us and falling away to the tranquil water below. Between each vine, the ground was covered in shrubs, flowers and buzzing insects. The panoramic view across the Sil Canyon, in this stretch of Ribeira Sacra, with tins of sardines in olive oil and a makeshift salad, offer a rustic experience of sublime dining.
Discord in Odesa; pruning at Shabo goes on!
Last week a picture was posted on Twitter of vines in Shabo, a large estate that lies to the west of Odesa on southern Ukraine’s Black Sea coastline. The image seemed benign at face value but the reality, of course, is that the city of Odesa has been bracing itself for attack by Russian forces.
An aperitif by the coliseum
As COVID-19 conspires with the grimmest of winds and rain to force a societal retreat behind our own front doors, the word ennui springs to mind. The muddle of displeasure is pierced when Natalia hands me a large bulbous glass of a liquid I do not recognise.
Artichoke pasta and very fine Pigato
Britain’s lamentable exit
On the eve of Britain’s official departure from the EU, my partner and I decided to explore a small town on the Italian Riviera where thewintry cold doesn’t feel so much like cold war bite.
I had warned my significant other that I would be having an inverse departure party, a release of the sanity valve if you like!
Soave: volcanic wines with elegance and longevity
Sitting inside the ancient castle walls inside the town of Soave, a short drive from Verona in northern Italy, the unique slightly almond aroma of the indigenous grape, Garganega, rises gently from my glass. The castle sprawls up the side of an extinct volcano that gives the region its variant soil structures that mark out the better quality of Soave wines.
An American In Paris; Tanisha Townsend (@GirlMeetsGlass) discusses podcasts, Paris wine bars, & what she's drinking at the moment
Tanisha Townsend decided to move to Paris 4 years ago after regularly passing through the city en route to the world’s most famous vineyards. In fact, it was about 2 years ago at the Printemps de Champagne Bouzy Rouge tasting in Reims that I saw (who we shall now refer to as) GirlMeetsGlass chirpily speaking to her web followers on Snapchat.
