Meg Maker

2 weeks ago | circleofwinewriters.org | Meg Maker

How should wine writers respond to a global trade war? This is the question Circle Chair Meg Maker poses as she interviews some circle members and others address the current moment. What is the role and future of wine writing given this moment of global economic uncertainty? At the extreme, the flow of wine will slow, prices will rise, wine consumption will drop, and wine consumer demographics will shift. Wine communication will shift, too.

3 weeks ago | terroirreview.com | Meg Maker

I was collected at the Florence airport by a stocky man in his late fifties. “Parla inglese, signore?” I asked, as he slung my bag into the trunk. He smiled. “No — a leetle.”I apologized for my own meagre Italian. “Il mio italiano è molto semplice.”“Va bene!” he boomed, unconvinced. My accent is better than my vocabulary. Once we’d made our way out of the airport’s labyrinth, I tried to make small talk.

3 weeks ago | terroirreview.com | Meg Maker

I was collected at the Florence airport by a stocky man in his late fifties. “Parla inglese, signore?” I asked, as he slung my bag into the trunk. He smiled. “No — a leetle.”I apologized for my own meagre Italian. “Il mio italiano è molto semplice.”“Va bene!” he boomed, unconvinced. My accent is better than my vocabulary. Once we’d made our way out of the airport’s labyrinth, I tried to make small talk.

1 month ago | terroirreview.com | Meg Maker

I’m thrilled to share that two of my photographs have been shortlisted for the World Food Photography Awards 2025. For fifteen years, I’ve had privileged access to scenes of wine and food making all over Europe and North and South America. I always carry a camera, to document for my own learning and to share with others in articles and online. I’m not principally a photographer, but I try to put my visual and aesthetic training to work when focusing my lens on makers and their spaces.

1 month ago | terroirreview.com | Meg Maker

Terroir writ small is land, geology. Terroir writ large is people, geography. Terroir writ large is about customs, traditions, and what the people of a land can pull forth from it. Food evolves to suit the landscape, the landscape evolves to suit the food. A dialectic. Terroir writ small is concrete (soil, grapes, wine). Terroir writ large is abstract (taste, culture, norms ). Abstractions are unsettling. Terroir is dismissed as elitist, bandied by wine writers to make their work sound important.