Commissions | Wine Rambler

Like Us to Write About Your Winery, Restaurant or Bar?

We accept commissions to write articles about wineries, restaurants and bars. We can write about your business either as part of an article or as an article in its own right.

Please note that we fully adopt the principles of independence and freedom from interference. We completely respect the time, effort and commitment that people have in their work and will always seek to emphasise the positives of any venture. However, we do maintain complete and full independence in our views.

At the moment we are only able to accept commissions in Europe and South Australia.

For more information and to discuss ideas please email the Editor in Chief, Chris Bearman at winerambler@outlook.com

A Life in Rosé

By Chris Bearman I must admit that I’ve never been a big fan of rosé wine. I’ve tasted hundreds of Californian and Australian rosés and they have all been insipid and uninspiring. Poured from the fridge and something of a party wine, I have always felt that they are a wine for people who don’t like wine (as we have music for people who don’t like music and 20/20 cricket for people who don’t like cricket). When it came to visiting the Tavel wine region of the Rhone Valley in F

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A Matter of Taste

By Chris Bearman My friend Scott and I decided to do some mid-week wine tasting. I had just submitted a report which had taken months of long days and several weekends to complete on time and Scott had just finished a gruelling series of consecutive night-shifts that morning. Scott came around to my apartment in the Bay Area, brushed off my concerns about his fatigue and whisked us off into the Santa Cruz Mountains in his classic MG convertible car, leaving behind the hustle

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A Summer Afternoon At Tilbrook

By Chris Bearman As Jane and I walk into the cool dark interior of the cellar door, James Tilbrook, a large man with greying hair and an English accent, welcomes us with an exclamation of relief. “Oh, thank God it’s you guys! He’s been rushed off his feet all morning serving wine and making pizzas for a winery promotion event. The detritus of hectic activity is evident. Empty bottles and glasses cover every available surface and dirty plates and cups are piled high in the sin

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Thirsty Charlatans

By C. Denasaman Mike, Natalie and I were bored! It was a cold, wet dreary weekend in Northern California and we were bored and fed up. On a whim, we decided to jump into Mike’s little Red and Black Mini car and headed up to Sonoma to socialise and do some wine tasting. We drove across San Francisco Bay shrouded in rain mist and fog, through the iconic arches of the Golden Gate Bridge and on to the Los Carneros wine region. The Los Carneros Region is between the Mayacamas Moun

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