Tom Cannavan is a
Scottish author
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and a
wine
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journalist
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. 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
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Frank Quadrelli) all the songs for this relatively successful band, drawing on influences from
punk
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,
new wave,
funk
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and
soul
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Etymology
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. A promising early career was marked by recording, touring with
The Human League
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in UK and Europe, leading to some
John Peel
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sessions.
Paul Morley
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in
NME
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picked them as “''band most likely to''…” in 1980, and they were noted as the “''best gig of 1980''” in
Sounds
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Career
Cannavan has run the websit
wine-pages.comsince November 1995, widely considered one of the best sites on wine,
The Sunday Times
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'', ''The Independent
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'', ''The World of Fine Wine
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'', ''Decanter
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'' and ''GrapesTALK''.
In September 2008, Cannavan won International Online Writer of the Year at the Louis Roederer
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awards for his website. Upon accepting the award Cannavan joked, "I deserve it, I work bloody hard".
The Festival of Wine
ref>https://festival-of-wine.com with consumer wine tasting festivals in
Glasgow
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,
Edinburgh
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and
London
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. In 2018 Cannavan was appointed
IWSC Wine Communicator of the Year.
Cannavan has previously appeared on
STV's ''
The Hour'' programme as their resident wine expert, between 2009 and 2011, when the show came to an end. He is also the 'resident wine expert' on the BBC Radio Scotland show Macaulay & Co, hosted by
Fred MacAulay
Frederick MacAulay (born 29 December 1956) is a Scottish comedian. For 18 years, until March 2015, he presented a daily BBC Scotland radio programme '' MacAulay and Co''. He has appeared on numerous TV shows.
Background
Born in Perth, MacAula ...
.
Awards
*2008: Louis Roederer International Online Wine Writer of the Year
*2010: Wine Journalist of the Year, Portuguese Wine Awards
*2018: International Wine Communicator of the Year
See also
*
List of wine personalities
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References
External links
Tom Cannavan's Wine-PagesTom Cannavan's Festival of WineWiki Discography of Restricted Code
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Living people
Wine critics
Year of birth missing (living people)