Alex Maltman
Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences, Dept. of Geography & Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University
Alongside a decorated career in university teaching and research, Alex has for fifty years grown vines and made wine at his home in Wales. And through this he became interested in vineyard geology and its fashionable but poorly understood relationship with wine. This led to numerous publications in the popular press and academic journals, and to international lectures.
Alex has contributed to various wine books, such as the Oxford Companion to Wine and the World Atlas of Wine, and is author of the acclaimed “Vineyards, Rocks, and Soils: A Wine Lover’s Guide to Geology” (Oxford University Press 2018) and “Taste the Limestone, Smell the Slate. A Geologist Wanders Through the World of Wine” (Academie du Vin Library 2025).