Wine | Felicity Carter

The flame thrower

Alice Feiring is not just a writer and passionate advocate for natural wines. She’s also controversial, as Felicity Carter discovers.

Spier Wine Farm in Stellenbosch grows grapes. And raises cows and pigs and sheep. Felicity Carter goes to see the future of viticulture.

What can the wine industry learn from the bestseller 50 Shades of Grey? A look at the research.

After I was awarded the 2016 Born Digital Wine Award for Editorial/Opinion Writing, I was interviewed. Here it is!

Wine communicators are always advising wineries to tell their stories. Felicity Carter found one winery doing just that.

In the 40 years since the famous Paris tasting, there have been many claims made about its impact. Felicity Carter examines one of the big ones.

If the wine world has changed dramatically in the past decade, what does the next one hold?

In the rush to bring women into wine, the wine trade has overlooked an important group – young men. But the big companies are paying attention.

With 431 stores throughout Sweden, the Swedish monopoly Systembolaget is the biggest wine buyer in the world. A look at how they choose the wines.

How do you stand out in a category that’s crowded and difficult? One designer can make bottles jump off shelves.

A new US-based company has begun to sell copies of well-known wine brands. What are the implications for brand owners?

Will Amazon kill the wine retail business, the way it’s killed so many other specialties?