Links
Links area of Richard Mayson's website:
I recommend the following websites of friends and colleagues, including wine writers and producers. Click on the names below to go directly to the respective websites.
Port Madeira and Fortified Wines
Websites
For the Love of Port This is a website bellonging to Roy Hersh, a man so passionate about Port that he named his daughter 'Taylor'. He is a true collector and this site is a font of knowledge for anyone with a thirst of Port. I was honoured to be inveited as his first guest in the 'guests corner' of his website in August 2009.
www.symington.com This is the Symington family website covering Port shippers Dow, Graham, Warre, Quinta do Vesúvio, Smith Woodhouse, Quarles Harris, Gould Campbell, Martinez and Quinta do Vesúvio and well as the Madeira Wine Company (Blandy, Cossart Gordon, Leacock and Miles). See below for a link to their blog which can also be accessed through this website.
Blogs
www.christianseely.com Christian Seely was the Managing Director of Quinta do Noval and graduated to head Axa Millesimes. He is an excellent speaker and with his responsibilites extending to Bordeaux, Burgundy, Languedoc, Hungary and Portugal his wine blog should be well worth reading.
www.malvedos.wordpress.com The Symington family have been blogging furiously during the 2009 vintage. Their blog based on Quinta de Malvedos allows you to follow the Symington family and their team of winemakers and viticulturalists in the vineyards, cellars and tasting room. It is a very readable insight to the viticultural year in the Douro.
Other Wine Websites
Jancis Robinson Jancis needs no introduction to anyone with an interest in wine. I have worked with Janicis on a number of projects, most recently on the Portuguese entries in the Oxford Companion to Wine. She is a talented professional journalist with a good eye for a story and a refreshing tongue in cheek style when writing about some of the more colourful personalities in the wine trade.
John Livingstone Learmonth John is the man about the Rhone and it was his website that inspired my own. His book, once published by Faber and now with the University of California Press, is the best of the genre. He has an investment background and, not being totally wine focused like many wine journalists, brings an extra dimension to his writing and to his talks.
Other Really Useful Links
www.born2move.co.uk/ It is so easy to put on the pounds / kilos when you are in the wine business and so I have been making a special effort recently to get fit and lose weight. With the encouragemant of personal trainer Matt Kay who founded Born2Move in 2008, I have been exercising more and eating better (but not less). Matt has shown me that with a bit of determination it is not that difficult to become fitter, lose weight and feel better. And I have found it enjoyable too. Born2Move's slogan sums it up: faster, leaner, fitter. I am a Born2Move junkie!
