Tasting notes
WSET-inspired notes with appearance, nose, palate, quality assessment, score and food pairing.
Go to blog →Wide Wine World · Wine, stories & perspective
Welcome to Wide Wine World — the home of claus_wino, long-form wine reflections, WSET-inspired tasting notes, wine history, producer stories and the wine-noir world of Claude Wintner.
Blog & articles
Expanded versions of selected Instagram posts, tasting notes, wine history, producer portraits, regions, vintages and reflections from the wide world of wine.
WSET-inspired notes with appearance, nose, palate, quality assessment, score and food pairing.
Go to blog →Stories about regions, grapes, producers, scandals, bottles and the people behind the wines.
Read wine history →Longer background pieces on classic regions, emerging areas and producers worth following.
Explore regions →Short-form wine reviews, bottle stories, tasting moments and reflections from the glass — with selected posts expanded here on Wide Wine World.
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Wine noir fiction
A wine-noir book series following Claude Wintner — wine authenticator, historian and reluctant investigator — into the darker corners of the wine world.
A case of fraudulent 1945 Bordeaux bottles opens a deeper story of silence, provenance, memory and buried truths.
Nebbiolo, old ledgers, vineyard names and the fragile boundary between history, reputation and deception.
Champagne, erased women, hidden authorship and a widow whose story was never meant to survive.
About
I write, speak and teach about wine with curiosity, structure and a sense of story. Through Wide Wine World I share tastings, wine education, producer stories and the literary wine-noir universe of Claude Wintner.
I work with wine communication, tastings, talks, wine list consulting and selected collaborations between producers, importers and wine lovers.