Wink Lorch

Wink has always worked in the world of wine and since the late 1980s has been a wine communicator, teaching wine trade students, entertaining wine lovers and writing for magazines and books. In addition she has worked with specialist wine book authors and publishers including on books by Oz Clarke and Jancis Robinson.

Wink lives partly in London and partly in the French Alps. She has become a specialist in the unusual wines of the French Alps (Savoie, Bugey and others) and of the Jura, contributing to many books and magazines on these specialist regions. Wink has also been involved in travel guide writing and editing for her specialist areas.

Her first book, Jura Wine, was self-published in March 2014 and won the Drink Prize in the André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards 2014 as well as being short-listed for Best International Book in the Louis Roederer Wine Writers' Awards 2014. The book was chosen as a book of the year for Jancis Robinson's website and by Eric Asimov in the New York Times. There is a Kindle/iPub version too.

Wink's second book, Wines of the French Alps: Savoie, Bugey and beyond, was published in 2019 and shortlisted for the André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards 2019 as well as receiving excellent reviews from the NY Times, JancisRobinson.com and elsewhere.

More about Jura can be found on Wink's Jura website www.jurawine.co.uk. Her main website is www.winetravelmedia.com.