Amanda Barnes
Amanda Barnes
Although British born, Amanda has been living amongst the wine regions of South America since 2009 where she specialises in writing about the wine regions of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. She is an award-winning journalist and a regular correspondent for Decanter, as well as contributing for several wine and travel publications internationally.
In 2021, her book on South America wine, The South America Wine Guide, was published offering a comprehensive print guide to the wine regions. It follows on from her digital guide southamericawineguide.com which has been published online since 2013 — the world’s first digital guide to the wineries and regions of South America.
She is an advocate for the old vines - especially Criolla vines - and the wine regions of Latin America and won the Geoffrey Roberts Award in 2019 and John Avery Award in 2022 for her work there.
