Richard M James

Richard Mark James has spent more than half a lifetime dabbling in the wine world from tasting, talking, writing and blogging about wine, to translating, doing qualifications on it and even buying and selling wine. As well as passing long hours standing among vines watching them grow on the landscape, grapes being picked and transformed into fermented juice while gleaning words of wisdom from the people who do the real work farming vineyards and actually making wine. His blog is WineWriting.com with special guest ‘FrenchMediterraneanWine’, and he occasionally runs wine education tastings in Belfast although does have a day job too working in public libraries. In a previous life, Richard lived for nearly six years in Les Pyrénées Orientales, the Roussillon region’s official name or number ‘66’, where his latest wine book adventure began: ROUSSILLON 'French Catalonia, Wild Wine Country'.

In a previous previous life, Richard also ventured into the world of supernatural thriller fiction, a novel called 'RED' suffused with many shades of red: wine, blood, colour, revolution... Watch this space for a new adventure in the world of disturbing fiction.