Chris Boiling #10
Wine Adventures: Chris Boiling's Journey from Journalism to Winemaking
Chris Boiling's Multinational Winemaking Adventure
Chris Boiling embarked on a remarkable winemaking venture during #harvest2022, crafting six wines across four countries. Highlights include an Austrian amber blend, a co-fermented Slovenian white, a red from northeast Slovenia, and a unique Hungarian sparkling wine. Another Hungarian project involves a distinctive Kadarka, blending two winemaking techniques. The journey concluded in Georgia, where Chris is producing a modern amber wine in a traditional qvevri.
Chris's Odyssey in Central and Eastern European Wines
Chris is an award-winning journalist who moved into wine and travel writing after buying a rundown winehouse and vineyard in Slovenia. He uses this as a base to explore Central and Eastern Europe and to make small quantities of wine from the region’s indigenous grape varieties.
He writes about his misadventures in the wine trade for wine websites and leads tours for adventurous wine lovers. These give travellers the opportunity to learn more about wine in general, the wines of Central Europe in particular and also to learn a new skill, such as yoga or kayaking.