Editorial policy

Feeling Vine is editorially independent. What we publish, and what we decline to publish, is decided by the editorial desk alone.

No advertiser, producer, importer or retailer has any say over our coverage, our judgements or the order in which anything appears.

Writing about grapes, places and styles is grounded in credible published, professional and technical sources, and is framed as a research-based profile rather than a bottle judgement.

Judgement about a specific bottle rests on our own tasting of that exact release. We do not present research as tasting, and we do not present tasting as approval.

We never describe a tasting that did not happen, invent a tasting note, or attribute words or claims to someone we did not speak to.

Where a piece rests on first-party reporting — an interview, a visit, a controlled tasting — we say so in the piece.

Some pieces carry an individual byline. Others are published under the publication itself, as Feeling Vine, where the work is institutional rather than personal.

Institutional authorship is a statement of editorial responsibility, not anonymity: the desk stands behind the piece.

When we get something wrong, we correct it. Substantive corrections are made in the piece rather than quietly removed.

If you believe something we have published is inaccurate, tell us and we will look at it.

Commercial relationships and retailer economics play no part in whether a wine is recommended or how its value is judged.

Where a wine can be bought is treated as a separate, purely practical question, handled by separate systems from editorial judgement.