Jul 11, 2020
3 min

Discovering Daniel Ham's Off Beat wines in lockdown

Lockdown started with good intentions. I wrote a list of jobs. Painting various parts of the house, build those planters that have been...

Simon Reilly

Feb 20, 2020
3 min

The wines, they are a changing

This article was originally published in Issue 22 of Root + Bone magazine in January 2020. Technology in wine? Now that’s a tough brief....

Simon Reilly

Jun 27, 2019
4 min

The (vin de) French Revolution

An edited version of his article was originally published in Issue 21 of Root + Bone magazine. Whilst the “in your (rich, elitist) face”...

Simon Reilly

Jun 11, 2019
8 min

Making Etna wine with I Vigneri

Another family holiday, another vineyard trip craftily sneaked in. I am the booker of holidays in our family, a role which allows me to...

Simon Reilly

Apr 21, 2019
4 min

Voodoo shit

An edited version of this article was originally published in issue 20 of Root + Bone magazine. I find the concept of biodynamics a bit...

Simon Reilly

Nov 22, 2018
3 min

The Completist

This article was originally published in Issue 19 of Root + Bone magazine. There is a view that wine geeks like me are little more than...

Luigi Tecce and the international language of wine

Simon Reilly

Nov 21, 2018
3 min

Luigi Tecce and the international language of wine

Wine is the essence of life. In the countries where there is wine, they did not need to reform the church and they have the best...

Root + Vine Issue 1 - Cutting the fruit's commute

Simon Reilly

Oct 17, 2018
5 min

Root + Vine Issue 1 - Cutting the fruit's commute

Hello. Yes, I am still here. Apologies if the content on this site has dried up somewhat, but I've been busy creating a new wine...

Centopassi - wines from the side of a mountain

Simon Reilly

Jul 8, 2018
3 min

Centopassi - wines from the side of a mountain

A little over a year ago I moved jobs. My old job was based in central London and although I like to think I was just very good at...

Wood is good - the wines of Tenute Sella

Simon Reilly

Jul 8, 2018
5 min

Wood is good - the wines of Tenute Sella

I recently tasted through the latest set of wines from Tenute Sella, a family owned estate in Biella, Alto Piemonte. I first discovered...

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ABOUT WINELOON

My name is Simon Reilly. I am a wine writer based in South East London. I am passionate about discovering new and exciting wines which offer value for money. I write about the wines I taste and other related wine stuff that I think is interesting, brilliant or annoying.

My aim is to write about wine in a straight forward way that is accessible to everyone.

I have had my writing published in Root+Bone magazine, Root + Vine, Jancis Robinson's Purple Pages, Glass of Bubbly and Decanter.

I have been shortlisted for a few awards for my writing; the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers' Awards 2017 in the "Emerging Writer" category and the 2017 Millesima Wine Blog Awards in the "Wine Reporter" category.

I also came second in the Born Digital Wine Awards 2017 in the "Best Investigative/Journalistic Wine Story" category.

One of these days I might win one, but as an Aberdeen FC fan, these days I am happy enough with second place. Stand Free.

Discovering Daniel Ham's Off Beat wines in lockdown

The wines, they are a changing

The (vin de) French Revolution

Making Etna wine with I Vigneri

Voodoo shit

The Completist

Luigi Tecce and the international language of wine

Root + Vine Issue 1 - Cutting the fruit's commute

Centopassi - wines from the side of a mountain

Wood is good - the wines of Tenute Sella

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