SIGRID SALUCOP

Journal

  • 12 Years of Wine Sales Linked to Environmental Outcomes

    12 Years of Wine Sales Linked to Environmental Outcomes

    In 2013, our wine brand made a small decision – that we plant a tree for every shipping case sold. At the time, it was a modest gesture toward sustainability, to counterbalance commerce. We didn’t release projections about scale but what we did was build a system to count how many trees we’ve planted and… Read more

  • Endless War, Endless Profit: Stories from Africa and the Middle East

    The tranquility of the savannah only shows itself in photos because in many parts of it are refugee camps in dire need of critical aid. War has taken root and it keeps happening that it is now part of daily life. A few miles away, in a local clinic, a boy with a gunshot wound… Read more

  • Plant roots mysteriously pulsate and we don’t know why

    Plant roots mysteriously pulsate and we don’t know why

    Etienne Farcot, University of Nottingham You probably don’t think about plant roots all that much – they’re hidden underground after all. Yet they’re continually changing the shape of the world. This process happens in your garden, where plants use invisible mechanisms for their never-ending growth. Scientists discovered about 15 years ago that genes at the… Read more

  • Basi del Diablo Now At Pangil Beach Resort

    Basi del Diablo Now At Pangil Beach Resort

    Currimao’s Pangil Beach Resort was relaunched recently and the property now carries Basi del Diablo Wines. The wines only entered the picture in August after a wine tasting was done in the presence of the resort’s owner and his partners. “The wine tasting was quite the treat because we got to talk about the wines… Read more

  • I research the therapeutic qualities of writing about art – here are three steps for trying it yourself

    I research the therapeutic qualities of writing about art – here are three steps for trying it yourself

    What do we learn about ourselves when we write creatively about an artwork? I asked myself this question during my creative writing PhD, where my focus was on writing a collection of poems in response to modern and contemporary art. Read more

  • Post from Congressman Barba’s Page

    Post from Congressman Barba’s Page

    Before becoming a novelist and a winemaker, Sigrid Salucop worked as a journalist, policy analyst, and interpreter for several international publications. Her writing career started at a small fashion magazine in London until she moved to the International Business Times to write for its London Edition and IBT Media’s subsidiaries. Salucop studied at the University… Read more