• Rooted in Change
  • Rooted in Change
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  • Format:Hardback
  • ISBN:9781917084703
  • Publication Date:01-10-2025
  • Pages:350

Rooted in Change

The Stories Behind Sustainable Wine

Jane Masters MW and Andrew Neather

Rooted in Change

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Release dates:
UK: 1 October 2025
USA and International: 15 November 2025

‘Few pleasures match a glass of good wine shared with friends. What’s the cost? This fascinating, limpidly written and admirably researched book shines a light on the price we’re all evading: wine’s strangely tentacular environmental footprint. Read it to understand – and to help.’
Andrew Jefford

‘For anyone who loves wine, life without it is unthinkable. But the unthinkable is upon us. In this beautifully written and well researched book, the authors describe the dangerous climatological precipice the wine industry now finds itself on. Equally important, however, they bring us stories from winemakers and vintners around the world who are charting a new environmental way forward – a way that respects the Earth and may just save wine.’
Karen MacNeil, author of The Wine Bible

and editor of WineSpeed
‘If knowledge is power, then this book is dynamite. As a vineyard owner myself, I loved it, and I learned a huge amount from its pages.’
Sir John Hegarty

‘a groundbreaking new book. . . offers practical guidance and global insights to help producers, marketers and exporters navigate the future of wine with purpose and clarity.’
Wanda Augustyn, Wineland

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About Rooted in Change: The Stories Behind Sustainable Wine

Rooted in Change is co-authored by Jane Masters, a Master of Wine with a profound commitment to sustainability in the global wine industry, and Andrew Neather, a respected journalist and former wine critic for the London Evening Standard. Together, they provide a thoughtful and accessible exploration of how the wine industry can evolve in response to the greatest challenges of our era.


• Why wine is the canary in the coal mine of climate change, and why production in 2024 was the lowest since 1961 due to a combination of wild fires, drought, torrential rain and floods.
• How a modern approach to viticulture and pest control can not only eliminate the use of harmful pesticides and fertilizers, but save growers money.
• How innovation – in terms of materials, practices and transportation throughout the supply chain – can dramatically reduce the industry’s carbon footprint.
• A look at the social side of sustainability, and why exploitative labour practices are fundamentally bad for the industry.
• Interviews with growers and producers the world over – people whose commitment to sustainability is on a par with their desire to create the finest wines possible.


Painstakingly researched, and packed with thought-provoking facts and statistics, Rooted in Change is a must-read for anyone with a vested interest in the future of wine.

Published in collaboration with The Vine Strategy Group, who are specialists in the wine industry, supporting producers and other businesses with their sustainability practices. 

Jane Masters is a Master of Wine, Oenologist and MBA from London Business School with extensive experience in retail and the international wine trade. She was a Director of the wine trade’s most prestigious global professional organisation, the Institute of Masters of Wine, between 2004-2018, was elected Chairman 2016-18 and is a founding member of the IMW’s Sustainability committee. Jane originally trained as a winemaker at Bordeaux University after earning a BSc (Hons) in Biological Chemistry.

Andrew Neather is a freelance British wine journalist. A former political speechwriter and newspaper journalist, he was the London Evening Standard’s wine critic, 2005-15. He now blogs weekly on wine and food at aviewfrommytable.substack.com and writes a regular column for Tim Atkin MW’s website.

  • Weight 0.9 kg
  • Dimensions 156 x 234 mm

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– Steven Spurrier