Come for the wine. Stay for the stories.

Thirty years in wine, four drinks books, and six novels with love stories that happen over a bottle. Coincidence? Probably not.

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Hello, I’m Helen.

I taste, write and talk about wine for a living (after ten years as a supermarket wine buyer), and I write novels that are, let's say, fairly wine-soaked.

Years ago, when my children were little, I started a wine blog called The Knackered Mother’s Wine Guide. That became a newspaper column, then a book and eventually I ended up on TV as wine expert.

Ridiculous, I know. But here we are.

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Come for the wine. Stay for the stories.

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