Jill Barth, "Stories On Umbria" International Journalism Award

In the world of wine, few stories are as captivating as that of Alessio Planeta and his influential positioning of Sicilian wine on the global stage.

Jill Barth covers wine and art in Provence for Wine Enthusiast magazine.

Jill Barth published in December 2023 edition of Wine Enthusiast.

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Take it back to 1937 — the year Verve Magazine debuted in Paris with a cover painted by Henri Matisse. Verve Magazine threw the spotlight on artists who were doing the coolest things out there - without any of the usual pretension. That’s what inspired us to start Verve Wine in 2016. To us, people who love to drink great wine, the best part of wine is sharing in the discovery of it all. We wanted Verve Wine to not simply be a place to buy wine but also a source of inspiration to a community of fun, curious drinkers just like us. Four years in and we’re still curious and still having a ton of fun.

Vienna (Wien) is the world’s only capital that fosters significant viticulture within the city limits, and here taverns welcome any visitor looking for comfortable hospitality with a taste of local wine and cuisine.

The Burgundy Canal is a cultural masterpiece, yet car-bound visitors might not even know it exists. Draped on either side by rich vegetation, bucolic farmland and walkable tow paths, it preserves generations of history in its stone bridges and mechanical locks.

The odds may seem stacked against finding Burgundy at a reasonable price—but curiosity can lead to some incredible and authentic finds. And despite the limited quantities, Burgundy continues to offer top quality options at a range of prices. Though home to many “unicorn” treasures and blockbuster vintages, there are bottles of Burgundy for everyone.

“Cru Bourgeois has emerged as a more powerful classification as a result of many recent initiatives,” says Robert Cavanaugh, founder of Adventure Wine. As a wine buyer, educator, and member of the International Bordeaux Ambassador program, he’s kept a close eye on the changes of Cru Bourgeois.

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Jill covers US wine in French for a Canadian audience. ExtraBrut is the only specialized wine and alcohol magazine published in Quebec. Edited by journalist Karyne Duplessis Piché in 2022, it offers a 360-degree look at gastronomy thanks to collaborators from all over the world. The magazine exists only in paper format. Like good wine, its content is to be tasted! The magazine is available in more than 700 points of sale in Quebec.

The story of Weingut Winkler-Hermaden and its home in a striking 11th-century castle starts with a “small, tough” woman. That woman, Magdalene Helene, was current proprietor Georg Winkler-Hermaden’s grandmother. When he found her diary, which she kept from her arrival at the Schloss Kapfenstein in 1916 through the Second World War, he “began to read and couldn’t stop until the book was finished.”

When Paul Clifton was a teenager growing up in Salinas, Calif., he knew which way the wind was blowing by following the scent of chocolate from a nearby factory. He used this as a clue to the day’s surfing conditions — his first passion was out in the waves of the Pacific. As director of winemaking for Hahn Family Wines in the Santa Lucia Highlands, his other passion is now in the vineyard, where his surfing knowledge has proven unexpectedly applicable.

In Mexico’s Baja region, the Bordeaux-trained winemaker Lourdes Martinez Ojeda crafts wines that establish her homeland as vital to the global culinary stage. Awarded for: A decade in Bordeaux taught Lourdes Martinez Ojeda how to make some of the world’s most respected wine; now she applies the experience to introduce a vibrant, fresh style to her native Baja California, Mexico.