Amanda Barnes is a wine writer and author of the award-winning book The South America Wine Guide. She has been based in Argentina since 2009, but has temporarily relocated to Hampshire to study and sit her Master of Wine exams. When she is not in a vineyard or writing on her laptop, you will likely find her riding horses with gauchos somewhere in the Andes.
The best advice I ever got
Always leave a window open. I think the phrase is technically ‘leave a door open’, but my Dad would always say window — and that’s what’s stuck.
My life motto
Lean in. And sometimes dive.
I am currently reading
Oz Clarke's On Wine
My most played music track
Miss you by The Rolling Stones
If I didn’t do my current job I would be
A pirate
Skill I don’t currently possess but would like to have
The ability to sail a boat solo.
My favourite kind of exercise
Dancing in the kitchen.
I relax while
Dancing in the kitchen.
I collect
Memories, not things.
My essential newspaper/magazine
The Economist and Decanter
My desert-island wine
A Balthazar of the fanciest mature Chardonnay the pirate ship can hoist aboard.
I have learnt a lot from
Everyone, of all ages and walks of life.
My last meal and sip will be
Bucket loads of Manzanilla and jamon ibérico.
