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Kate Dingwall

Hi!

By day, I'm a seasoned writer and photographer
covering the intersection between spirits, wine, business, culture and travel. By night I'm a working sommelier.
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I've spent the last ten years weaving together tales of terroir, place, people, and culture. My work currently appears inWine Enthusiast, Forbes.com, Food & Wine, MAXIM, Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants, Liquor.com, SevenFifty Daily, The Toronto Star, Toronto Life, InsideHook, Elle, The Vintner Project and more.

I'm also seasoned in branded content writing—clients include Toronto Life, Chatelaine, Vogue, Fashion, and Maxim—and happy to provide a portfolio on request. I'm always open to pitches, new commissions, or friendly hellos (dog pictures welcome)

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Publications

  • Wine Enthusiast
    13 articles
  • Food & Wine Magazine
    2 articles
  • InsideHook
    1 article
  • SevenFifty Daily
    1 article
  • InsideHook
    1 article
  • Freelance Journalist
  • Toronto Life

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  • Skip the Big-Name Champagnes: This Historic Brand Is All You Need
    24 Mar—InsideHook
    This article is part of The Spill Awards 2025, covering the best in spirits, cocktails, bartenders and drinks culture. Find all of the stories here. Choice of Champagne can say a lot about a person. Yellow labels are safe. Dom Perignon says you have money, a bit of taste and a deep knowledge of Biggie lyrics. Selosse, Savart and Cedric Bouchard are inside baseball, and ordering grower Champagne — a blooming movement of farmer-winemaker sparkling producers — sets off nerd alerts. But...
  • —SevenFifty Daily
  • —Wine Enthusiast
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  • What’s Better for Wine, a Donald Trump or Kamala Harris Presidency?
    15 Oct 2024—Wine Enthusiast
    The 2024 election season has been a rollercoaster. One candidate got shot in the ear. One party lost a candidate (and gained Kamala Harris). There have been devastating hurricanes, tumultuous debates, all kinds of weirdness and a brat summer. Chances are, you’ve felt the need to follow the political cycle with a drink in hand. It’s okay, friend, us, too. Drinks industry pros—especially wine folks—have certainly been feeling the pressure. Sales have been declining, in part due to changing...

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