The Journal is a little virtual nook where I collect thoughts about wine that deserve to last a little longer than today’s headlines. Some articles are newly written. Others revisit pieces first published years ago, updated where time has offered a different perspective. Together they reflect more than three decades spent working in wine.
Compared to many wine websites, this journal may appear as bare as vines on Saint Vincent’s Day, but it’s a snug place, quickly referencing vinous thoughts from the vineyard to the virtual world.
Through Wine Campus, my books Wines of Malta and Cleanskin, and my work at Delicata Winery and farther afield, I have always tried to make wine a little less intimidating and a little more enjoyable. I remain fascinated by what lies behind every bottle: the people, the places, the traditions, the ideas, and occasionally the controversies worth exploring.
I have always preferred to jot down an idea, rewrite it, leave it alone for a while, return to it, rewrite it again, and only then decide it is ready to publish. Some of these articles have taken years to find their final form. Good ideas, like good wines, often deserve another opening.
This is not a news blog, nor a place for chasing headlines. Instead, it is a quiet corner where opinions are allowed to mature, where curiosity matters more than immediacy, and where I can occasionally offer a different angle on wine.
I hope you enjoy reading these pieces as much as I have enjoyed writing – and often rewriting – them.
Live your Wine!
— Georges Meekers
