Wojciech Bonkowski, Editor of the Polish Wine Guide
Wojciech has been instrumental in all the major initiatives on the wine scene, including the country’s first wine book – Wines of Europe.
Wojciech Bońkowski has been writing about wine in Polish and English since 1999. He specialises in the wines of Italy, Portugal, Central and Eastern Europe including Hungary, Croatia and Greece. After working for a year in the wine trade in London, he returned to Poland where he has been instrumental in all the major initiatives on the wine scene, including the country’s first wine book – Wines of Europe, which reviews over 15,000 wines from 33 countries. He was also Vice Editor-in-Chief from 2002-2010 of Poland’s first wine magazine, Magazyn Wino. Wojciech also launched www.winicjatywa.pl, an online wine magazine which has become Poland’s number one wine medium.
More recently, Wojciech likes to play an active role educating Polish consumers about wine. He also holds tutored tastings and wine classes, as well as being a columnist for Przekrój and the news website www.natemat.pl. He continues to write on his blog www.polishwineguide.com and covers Northern Italy for Tim Atkin MW’s www.timatkin.com.
