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The World Of Fine Wine
''The World of Fine Wine'', abbreviated ''WFW'', is a British quarterly publication for a wealthy audience of wine enthusiasts and collectors. Originally published by Quarto Magazines Ltd, and now published by Progressive Media International, the first issue was released in June 2004. It has been described as "an up-market ''Decanter'', with longer, more in-depth features, more credible tastings and less advertising". Hugh Johnson describes ''The World of Fine Wine'' as "not a consumer magazine, but the first cultural journal of the wine world".''The World of Fine Wine'', finewinemag.coAbout us/ref> ''The World of Fine Wine'' won the 2009 Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best Wine Magazine in the World.rasalas.fThe Gourmand Awards, Paris, July 1, 2009/ref> and in September 2010 and 2012 the journal won the Louis Roederer Award for International Wine Publication of the Year. In July 2015 the magazine digitized its past issues. Contributors The editorial team consists of Neil Bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Halliday (wine)
James Halliday (born 1938) is an Australian wine writer and critic, winemaker, and senior wine competition judge. Since 1979 he has written and co-authored more than 40 books on wine, including contributions to the ''Larousse Encyclopedia of Wine'' and ''The Oxford Companion to Wine''. Since 1986 he has published an annual overview of Australian wine which (since 2000) has been entitled ''James Halliday Annual Wine Companion''. Jancis Robinson has described Halliday as the protégé of Len Evans, and his successor "as Australia’s leading wine writer". Career James Halliday studied law at the University of Sydney. He started his wine career while being a partner at Clayton Utz from 1966 to 1988 (with a break from 1974 to 1976 when he worked for a merchant bank). He established Brokenwood winery in the Hunter Region in 1970 with two legal colleagues. He sold it in 1983. In 1985 he founded the Coldstream Hills Winery in the Yarra Valley wine region. Coldstream Hills was acq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Schildknecht
David Schildknecht is an American wine critic, a full-time member of "Vinous", and previous member of ''The Wine Advocate'', contributor to recent editions of Robert Parker's ''Wine Buyer’s Guide''. An authority on the wine of Germany and Austria, he also considers the Loire Valley a specialty, a wine region he has described as "the bargain garden of France". He currently covers the French regions of the Loire Valley, Alsace, Beaujolais, Burgundy, Champagne, the Jura, the Savoie and (through calendar 2013) the Languedoc-Roussillon, as well as Austria, Germany and other central Europe wine producing regions, and additionally Oregon, the American East Coast and Midwest wines. Schildknecht - who worked in Washington DC with Rex Wine & Spirits from 1981, with Mayflower Wine and Spirits, and with Pearson's - regularly assembled and presented wines from German growers for Parker's reports in ''The Wine Advocate'' from 1990 through 1993. From 1985-1995, he reported from Austria, Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Meadows
Allen Meadows is an American wine critic and publisher of the Burghound.com quarterly newsletter and website. He was a financial executive and private wine collector until a profile published in ''Wine Spectator'' in 1997 led him to decide to follow his passion for wine. By 2000, Meadows had left his role of CFO at a publicly traded insurance company and launched the Burghound.com site, which offers subscribers newsletters with reviews of Burgundy wine and California and Oregon Pinot noir wines as well as Champagne. Meadows regularly speaks on Burgundy and other wine subjects. Allen Meadows is retained to speak at wine events such as the Asia Symphony of Wine and Flavours - Burghound in Asia, which is held in Singapore. Within a relatively short time following its launch, the service came to be viewed by many as "the definitive word on matters Burgundian", and Meadows "a leading Burgundy critic". Among the reasons cited for the success of Burghound.com are that Meadows already he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Galloni
Antonio Galloni is an American wine critic. He is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Vinous for which he is also the lead critic covering the wines of Bordeaux, California, Italy, and Champagne. From 2006 to 2013, Galloni was a tasting staff member of Robert Parker's publication ''The Wine Advocate''. In May 2013, Galloni founded Vinous. Early life and education Galloni was born in Caracas, Venezuela to an Italian father and American mother. When he was eleven the family moved to Sarasota, Florida where his parents sold Italian wines at retail. This early exposure to wine began a lifelong fascination with wine. Galloni's maternal grandmother introduced him to the wines of Burgundy, while his father instilled in him that "there are two great wines in the world: Barolo and Champagne". Galloni received a degree from Boston's Berklee College of Music in jazz composition and guitar. After a stint as a musician and waiter, which led him to get to know many of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Steinberger
Michael Steinberger is an American author and journalist, who served as the wine columnist of the internet magazine ''Slate (magazine), Slate'' from 2002 to 2011.Colman, Tyler, drvino.com (August 25, 2011)The budgetary ax cuts Slate’s wine column/ref> He has been described as "one of the greatest wine writers on the planet", and to possess a "blessedly trustworthy voice and palate". Steinberger has himself stated his palate is Euro-centric, having been cultivated on French wine, with the wine from Bordeaux wine, Bordeaux and Burgundy wine, Burgundy being his "touchstones". Currently, Steinberger serves as a freelance writer, often involving topics regarding tennis, for publications including ''The New York Times''. Career Steinberger has previously worked as a Hong Kong correspondent for ''Maclean's''.Booklounge.cAuthor spotlight: Michael Steinberger/ref> He has also contributed to publications such as ''The New York Times'', ''Saveur'', ''Financial Times'', ''The Economist'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Rose (wine)
Anthony Rose is a British wine journalist known for his column in ''The Independent'', which ran for the length of the print version from 1986 to 2016. He also contributes to publications such as ''Decanter'', ''The Real Review '', ''The Financial Times How to Spend It online '' and '' The Oxford Companion to Wine ''. Rose has contributed to several wine books including ''Wine Report'', ''The Oxford Companion to Wine'', and for five years co-authored the annual consumer guide ''Grapevine'' with Tim Atkin. Rose was one of four UK wine writers, along with Joanna Simon, David Williams and Jane Parkinson, to launch an online wine ratings magazine for the UK called The Wine Gang. He is the panel chair for Southern Italy at the Decanter World Wine Awards. Accomplishments Among the awards Rose has received are the Prix de Lanson Black Label Award 2000, the Prix de Lanson Champagne Writer of the Year 2002 and the Glenfiddich Wine Writer of the Year Award 2005. In September 2008 he won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Goode
Jamie Goode is a British author with a PhD in plant biology, and a wine columnist of ''The Sunday Express''. Goode also contributes to wine publications such as '' Harpers'', ''The World of Fine Wine'', ''Decanter'', ''GrapesTALK'' and ''Sommelier Journal.'' Goode played guitar in folk rock band Tintagel which released the album Sword and Stone in 1991. Publications Goode published the book ''Wine science: the application of science in winemaking'' in 2005 (in United States as ''The Science of Wine: From Vine to Glass''), to wide acclaim and winning the Glenfiddich Drink Book of the Year award, and ''Wine Bottle Closures'' in 2006. His website "The Wine Anorak" and the related blog launched in 2001 are among the internet's most highly regarded wine sites, containing in-depth articles on subjects such as wine chemistry issues. See also *List of wine personalities Instead of common selection criteria for the entire list, notability of people involved should be checked against the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Cannavan
Tom Cannavan is a Scottish author and a wine journalist. He is considered a pioneer presence on internet of the British wine writing establishment. Biography In his youth Tom had a foretaste of fame as lead vocalist and guitarist in the budding band Restricted Code. He co-wrote (in partnership with his schoolmate Frank Quadrelli) all the songs for this relatively successful band, drawing on influences from punk, new wave, funk and soul. A promising early career was marked by recording, touring with The Human League in UK and Europe, leading to some John Peel sessions. Paul Morley in NME picked them as “''band most likely to''…” in 1980, and they were noted as the “''best gig of 1980''” in Sounds. Restricted Code reformed in 2018. Career Cannavan has run the websitwine-pages.comsince November 1995, widely considered one of the best sites on wine, which received a recommendation by Robert Parker in his book ''The Wine Buyer's Guide''. Cannavan has published the book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oz Clarke
Robert Owen Clarke (born 1949), known as Oz Clarke, is a British wine writer, actor, television presenter and broadcaster. Early life Clarke's parents were a chest physician and a nursing sister. He is of Irish descent and was brought up Roman Catholic. His mother was born in Graiguenamanagh. He was brought up near Canterbury with a brother and a sister. Clarke became a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral and subsequently won a choral scholarship to The King's School, Canterbury. He later attended Pembroke College, Oxford where he studied theology and psychology and became Common Room President. He played University hockey, was University punting champion, sang with Schola Cantorum, and acted with the dramatic society and the Oxford Revue at the Edinburgh Festival. He also captained the wine-tasting team. He claims to have been given his chosen name, Oz, "in the school showers" when he was 13, because he played cricket like an Australian cricketer. The Australian cricket team w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann C
Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female given name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie. Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the Netherlands, particularly in the Frisian speaking part (for example, author Anne de Vries). In this incarnation, it is related to Germanic arn-names and means 'eagle'.See entry on "Anne" in th''Behind the Name'' databaseand th"Anne"an"Ane"entries (in Dutch) in the Nederlandse Voornamenbank (Dutch First Names Database) of the Meertens Instituut (23 October 2018). It has also been used for males in France (Anne de Montmorency) and Scotland (Lord Anne Hamilton). Anne is a common name and the following lists represent a small selection. For a comprehensive list, see instead: . As a feminine name Anne * Saint Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mary * Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665–1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1702–07) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Ziliani
# Franco Ziliani (Francesco Ziliani, born 09/23/1956 in Milan, died in 2021) is an Italian journalist, blogger and wine critic, with a specialty in Italian wines since 1985. He has contributed to several periodicals including ''Decanter'', ''A Tavola'', ''Barolo & Co.'' and ''Merum'', ''Il Corriere Vinicolo'', ''De Vinis'', ''The World of Fine Wine'', as well as a column for '' Harpers Magazine'' with Nicolas Belfrage MW with whom he has also contributed to Tom Stevenson's annual ''Wine Report''. Ziliani and Jeremy Parzen launched VinoWire.com in March 2008, to provide an English language news service on the subject of Italian wine. Ziliani has since been credited by ''La Repubblica'' with first breaking the 2008 Brunello scandal. Ziliani has often criticised Angelo Gaja and his style of winemaking, and frequently and controversially refers to James Suckling as "Giacomino Suckling" and his employer publication ''Wine Spectator'' as "Wine Speculator". A right-winger, Ziliani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
