Meet the experts

Decanter’s authors

SARAH AHMED

is an award-winning wine writer, educator and judge specialising in Portugal and Australia. She is DWWA Regional Chair for Portugal, and publishes on her own website thewinedetective.co.uk

ELIN McCOY

is a journalist and author with a focus on wine. Based in Connecticut, she writes on wines and spirits for Bloomberg News, and is currently working on a new book set in California

JANE ANSON

is a Decanter contributing editor and DWWA Regional Chair for Bordeaux, where she also lives. Her most recent book is an in-depth study of the region, Inside Bordeaux (£60, BB&R Press)

ALESSANDRA PIUBELLO

is a widely published author, journalist and editor from Verona. She reports on many aspects of Italian culture, principally wine and food, and is co-editor of the I Vini di Veronelli Guida Oro wine guide

SARAH JANE EVANS MW

is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster, and DWWA Co-Chair. Author of The Wines of Northern Spain (Infinite Ideas, 2018), she is also current chair of Spain’s Gran Orden de Caballeros del Vino

DAVID SLY

is an award-winning, Adelaide-based, food and wine writer. A specialist in South Australian produce, his books include This is South Australia (Canongate, 2008), a history of the state

ANDY HOWARD MW

is a Decanter contributing editor and a DWWA Regional Chair. A former retail wine buyer, he now runs his own wine consultancy Vinetrades Ltd, with a focus on wine education and sourcing

RICHARD WOODARD

is a widely published, UK-based wine and spirits journalist and writer. Writing for numerous respected trade and consumer titles, he was formerly magazine editor for scotchwhisky.com