Dominic Ashby’s practice explores wine, hospitality, and contemporary dining through writing.
His work spans editorial and commissioned formats, shaped by close observation and lived experience.
2024
The Healthy Times Issue 5 - Demystifying Mythical Grapes: Backyard Aromas
The Preserve Journal Issue 10 - The Path to Remembrance:
A Sommelier's Deep Dive into Sake. An Interview with Masaru Terada
2021
The Preserve Journal Issue 5 - Wines of Change:
The Conscientious Drinker
Demystifying Mythical Grapes: Backyard Aromas
ISBN:978.3.9505660.0.0
160 x 240mm
180 pages, Softcover
excerpt:
“All my favourite childhood memories are cooped up in the small, yellow-grassed backyard of my family home. From playing catch in the mud and trying to dislodge my brother's arm, to witnessing the massacre of our pet rabbits by my pack of shit, poodle-cross- Frankenstein dogs, as well as the dishevelled shed which we retrospectively realised was full of asbestos. And the bustling evergreen of our pride’n’joy vegetable patch amongst the fruit trees."”
The Path to Remembrance: A Sommelier's Deep Dive into Sake. An interview with Masaru Terada
Softcover
160 x 240mm
130 pages.
excerpt:
“But the bottles that continue to occupy significant space in my mind are those from Terada Honke. Through each experience with them, I think I get a better understanding of the drink in the glass, but the next time throws me off ‘the scent’, and takes me down a new path, to a new garden of plentitude. The bottles are always alive in the best sense of the word, never faulty, always individual."
Wines of Change:
The Conscientious Drinker
Softcover
160 x 240 mm
140 pages.
excerpt:
"Australia can be held up as a prime example of this focal shift in concern for provenance and farming. Not only is this rooted in restaurants and farming communities, but also in a young, constantly shifting, and decidedly malleable wine industry. The winds of change have pushed Australia towards conscious consumption and forward- thinking wine production, its viticultural industry striding forward in the face of inevitable change."