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Free spirit, free wines | Whetstone magazine

September 2020

New work for Whetstone magazine, a favourite indie publication. With a focus on championing food to expand human empathy and challenging mainstream trends, they publish unique food stories from around the world.

For the current issue, I wrote a long form feature on Victoria Torres, a fifth generation winemaker from La Palma, Canary Islands, who makes excellent wines despite all the challenges, including climate change.

The work appears in the Issue 6, out now. Please support independent journalism and buy or subscribe here.

 
 
 
 

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Lanzarote’s vineyards | The New York Times

August 2020

Last year, fascinated by the superb beauty and incredible history of Lanzarote’s vineyards, I visited the island once again independently, to document harvest.

“Situated some 80 miles off the southwest coast of Morocco, Lanzarote — with its stunning coastline, desert-like climate and plethora of volcanoes — is the easternmost of Spain’s Canary Islands. Major volcanic activity between 1730 and 1736, and again in 1824, indelibly altered the island’s landscape and helped pave the way for an improbable sight: a vast expanse of otherworldly vineyards.

In recent years, Spain has devoted more land to vines than any other country in the world. And while the Canary Islands, more broadly, have a longstanding wine tradition — the archipelago’s wines, for example, were mentioned in several of Shakespeare’s plays — nothing could prepare me for the uniqueness of Lanzarote’s vines”.

  

A photo essay has now been published in The New York Times. Read full story here.


 
 
 

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The Dolomites | The New York Times

June 2020

Last August I was lucky enough to complete a hut-to-hut hike, the Alta Via 1, in the Dolomites.

“With their colossal limestone walls and gloriously green valleys, Italy’s Dolomites are home to some of the world’s most majestic scenery — and mountain huts called rifugios make it all the more accessible”.

A photo essay of this long distance trail, traversing some of the most spectacular mountains I have ever seen, has been published in The New York Times. Read full story here.