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Taste-In, Taster Joanna Simon.

Joanna Simon is an award-winning wine writer long associated with The Sunday Times, where she wrote a weekly wine column from 1987 to 2009 and still writes on cookery for the Style magazine.


She is a co-founder of TheWineGang and contributes to Decanter, Classic FM magazine and a magnum of other publications. Her books include Wine An Introduction, Discovering Wine, The Sunday Times Book of Wine and Wine with Food (the result of years of strenuous eating and drinking).

Joanna presented BBC Radio 4’s series The Bottle Uncorked and her TV appearances have covered everything from matching food and wine, to buying fine and rare wines at auction, to demonstrating how to open a bottle of champagne. She is a former editor of Wine magazine and of Wine & Spirit

Taste-In, Taster Joanna Simon

As a broadcaster, she presented The Bottle Uncorked, BBC Radio 4’s first series devoted entirely to wine.