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Joanna Simon

United Kingdom

Co-Founder, Wine and Food Expert, Editor of Waitrose Drinks at The Wine Gang

Wine & food expert 🍷Wine of the Week @joannasimon.com ✍️World of Fine Wine 📚Wine With Food, Discovering Wine, etc, Insta joannasimon_wine

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  • 1 week ago | joannasimon.com | Joanna Simon

    Joanna Simon5 minutes ago2 min read£12.59–£16.15, D Byrne, All About Wine, Aitken Wines, The Vineyard Dorking, Bludge, Great GrogThis bright, juicy red from southeast Spain is a new wine from Gil Family Estates, from their Bodegas Atalaya in Almansa, and it’s their inaugural biodynamic wine.

  • 1 week ago | highlandernews.org | Joanna Simon

    Xikers is a K-pop boy group consisting of ten members. Debuting under KQ Entertainment in 2023, they have garnered a reasonably large-scale fanbase, especially for a group under one of the smaller K-pop entertainment companies out there: KQ Entertainment, which rose from humble origins and gained success through their current most successful group, Ateez. Xikers have been developing their sound and identity, though their discography remains somewhat underrated and sometimes underpromoted.

  • 2 weeks ago | joannasimon.com | Joanna Simon

    £13.95–£14, Stone, Vine and Sun, Hic!I was going to keep this dry Riesling under wraps until more stockists had moved on to the 2023 vintage, but as many of us have stepped into summer this week, however briefly, and it’s such a perfect wine for sunny, warm weather, I’m going ahead. This comes from a warm vintage, but it’s still racy, chiselled and crackling with energy, sprinkling lemon, lime, quince, honeysuckle and spice on to stony, rock-pool minerality.

  • 3 weeks ago | joannasimon.com | Joanna Simon

    £19.50, Vintage RootsGrés de Montpellier only became an AOP in its own right from the 2024 vintage (appellation controlée in the old terminology), so this 2021 predates that and has to say Languedoc after Grès de Montpellier on the label, but its quality soars way above many a more famous southern French AOP.

  • 3 weeks ago | joannasimon.com | Joanna Simon

    £19.50, Vintage RootsGrés de Montpellier only became an AOP in its own right from the 2024 vintage (appellation controlée in the old terminology), so this 2021 predates that and has to say Languedoc after Grès de Montpellier on the label, but its quality soars way above many a more famous southern French AOP.

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15 May 25

New #wineoftheweek new Provence rosé and not in an over-designed, overweight bottle but in lightweight recycled glass, recycled paper, organic ink, no aluminium or plastic. G de Galoupet https://t.co/GIPWAse5zk #rosé #Provence #ecofriendly https://t.co/e3kuObdoYv

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15 May 25

RT @zebsoanes: This is one of the culprits of the amphibian rumpy-pumpy that kept us awake last night. Thanks to @joannasimon he now has a…

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14 May 25

Last shout for this new #biodynamic Spanish Garnacha before my next #wineoftheweek tomorrow https://t.co/KTmAH9T2UN #organic #Garnacha