If you have found this online writing portal and have ideas, need advice on wine or want to make contact, email me: mailme@joellethomson.com

I am a journalist, author and wine writer. I love the great outdoors, live in Wellington and my turangawaewae is the South Island of New Zealand.

Like all published authors, I am working on the next book…

Enough about me… read the bio info below or get in touch by email:

mailme@joellethomson.com

 

Here’s a bit of formal bio info’…

  • I am a journalist, wine writer and author and remember the first moment I fell in love with wine on a dark and stormy night, literally, when I was bitten by the big buttery Chardonnay bug at a cafe in Wellington, New Zealand, in the late 1980s.
  • I trained in journalism on an old fashioned typwriter at Wellington Polytechnic in 1989.
  • I currently work as a wine writer and update this website every Friday.
  • I work as a wine advisor at Regional Wines & Spirits; writing and tasting wines from around the world on an (almost) daily basis.
  • I am on the judging panel at the 2019 Marlborough Wine Show.
  • I have judged at wine shows regularly since 1995; mostly in New Zealand and also in Australia and South Africa.
  • I hold the Wine & Spirit Education Trust’s highest qualification, the Level 4 Diploma.
  • I write for Good magazine, NZ Winegrower, Drinksbiz, Capital magazine and www.joellethomson.com
  • I wrote my first wine column in 1994 and am the author of 16 wine books (published by New Holland and HarperCollins), including 10 annual wine guides.
  • I regularly host wine tastings for private and corporate groups.
  • My teaching spans many years at the New Zealand School of Food & Wine in Auckland where I taught certificate wine courses (both New Zealand and the WSET – Wine & Spirit Education Trust).

 

Send an email for more…

mailme@joellethomson.com