About

Hello! Welcome to my site. I’m a Danish wine writer, photographer & keen conservationist, based in London.

I’m co-founder and Head of Content of LITTLEWINE, an online wine platform launched in April 2020. It aims to bring wine lovers and professionals closer to the makers and farmers behind the bottle through emotive language, photography and film.

I’m also a speaker for both consumer and trade audiences, covering pretty much every aspect of the world of wine, and specialising in environmental aspects of viticulture. Clients include Beaujolais, Chablis, Austrian Wine, The Real Wine Fair, The New Old World Wine Fair, Vin de France, Côtes du Rhône and Bibendum.

I was runner-up in Jancis Robinson’s wine writing competition (2021).

"Christina Rasmussen is one of a new generation of writers who rejects the old school points-based critics' approach, and instead unearths authentic, biodynamic and natural wines with stories to tell."

- Dr Jamie Goode (thanks Jamie!)

 

I’m also a budding winemaker-farmer. When not writing about wine or photographing winemakers, I can be found in a vineyard learning about viticulture, or in a cellar learning how to make wine. I did my first vintage in 2019 in southern and northern California, helping Abe Schoener of the Scholium Project to set up LA River Wine Company. You can find two documentaries made about our journey on SOMM TV.

I made my first wine simultaneously; a Palomino from own-rooted old vines in Contra Costa County, planted in 1930. It will soon be available to purchase.

I also did a short harvest stint in 2020 with Domaine Dujac.

In May 2021, I planted a one-acre vineyard with my sister in Oxfordshire, to a massal selection of Burgundian, Jurassic and Savoyard varieties sourced from Lilian Bérillon. It had been several years in the making, and a dream come true to be the first person in the UK to work with Lilian’s vine material. It’s early days still, but we’re working according to permaculture and look forward to our first vintage in 2024.