Nina Caplan

AboutMe

I've been a writer and editor for over 20 years, turning an array of obsessions – with wine, art, food, film and the correct positioning of adjectives – into prose that varies in style and subject matter but never in quality. I was Metro's Film Critic and Time Out's Features Editor; Guides Editor for the Guardian and Editor of Metropolitan, the trilingual consumer magazine on Eurostar. More recently, I was in charge of editorial strategy for Save the Children, working within the Brand & Marketing Department on cross-channel content that might involve literacy programmes in Pakistan or climate change initiatives around the world.
 
I've crossed the Mediterranean by ferry and made a luxury barge in Burgundy my temporary home, but I've also written about the devastation that Typhoon Haiyan caused in the Philippines and edited a report (which won a Communicator Award) on hunger resulting from the Syrian conflict.
 
I write an award-winning wine column for the New Statesman, another for The Times's luxury magazine Luxx and a travel and lifestyle column for Club Oenologique, and am a regular contributor to Travel + Leisure magazine; I also voyage intrepidly, or at least avidly, for Food & Wine, Conde Nast Traveller, National Geographic Traveller and others. I  give talks, consult on wine lists and host fun, informal wine-matching dinners in restaurants and other venues.

My first book, The Wandering Vine: Wine, The Romans and Me, was published by Bloomsbury in 2018 and awarded the Louis Roederer Wine Book of the Year that September and the Fortnum & Mason Debut Drink Book of the Year in May 2019.

Whenever possible, I travel with my husband, William Craig Moyes, who takes beautiful photographs for my articles. You can see more of his work here.