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NEWS

  • UK Sommelier of the Year winner
  • Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Wine Auction 2009 nets $1.2 million
  • Graham's declares the 2007 vintage
  • Vino Vino Vino 2009,  Verona 2-4 April
  • Bruno Paillard Old Dégorgements Collection
  • Seventh-Annual Bogart Wine Aficionado Dinner
  • Forks & Corks 2009
  • Wine Symposium at Villa d'Este 30 October-2 November
  • Langton's en primeur offer to support Country Fire Authority Victoria
  • Cheval Blanc to build new winery
  • Wilfred Jaeger's RN74 restaurant to open in April
  • Mouton's Freudian slip
  • La Paulée de New York 2009
  • Aurelio Montes wins Personality of the Year at Wines of Chile Awards
  • First Asian wine competition
  • Château Latour for sale?
  • WFW shortlisted for World Cook Book Awards
  • Michael Schuster's Spring 2009 programme
  • DRC to produce Corton

Welcome to The World of Fine Wine

"The first cultural journal of the wine world"

Hugh Johnson OBE

 
 The World of Fine Wine wins international honours
 
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For the second year running The World of Fine Wine has won a major international prize. Editor Neil Beckett picked up the prestigious Gourmand Award for the World’s Best Wine Magazine at a glittering ceremony held at La Comédie Française in Paris on July 1, 2009, confirming WFW’s widespread recognition as the leading wine magazine in the world.  

Presenting the award, Chairman of the Awards Committee Edouard Cointreau said “ What is unusual about The World of Fine Wine is that it is not afraid to be different. I have always believed that people who have an original vision and pursue it in a committed way will succeed. Anyone who is seriously interested in wine should read this beautifully produced magazine.”

Neil Beckett replied: “I am honored to accept this award on behalf of all those who have made The World of Fine Wine what it is. It was the brainchild of Laurence Orbach, chairman of The Quarto Group, and as we complete our fifth year it is enormously encouraging to get recognition at this highest level of his original vision – a quarterly review that was quite unlike any other wine magazine, concentrating on fine wine but also embracing the many cultural issues surrounding it in an entertaining but serious way. I am grateful to our editorial advisor Hugh Johnson, our contributing editor Andrew Jefford, and the many distinguished writers around the world who have helped us to realize that vision.”

 

The Gourmand Awards exist to recognize and celebrate the very best of food and wine publishing throughout the world. The competition is open to publications in every language; this year there were approximately 8,000 entries, from 102 countries. Awards are made by an international jury.

Second place in the World’s Best Wine Magazine category was awarded to La Revue des Vins de France. Award winners in other categories included Ferrán Adrià, Robert Parker, Heston Blumenthal, Jacques Pépin, Woody Allen, Quino, Benjamin Wallace, Frédéric Anton, Jánis Miglavs, Salma Husain, and Campbell Mattinson.

For more information on Gourmand and to see the winners' list visit www.cookbookfair.com.

 

 

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 Laurence Orbach with WFW Publisher Sara Morley

 

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Laurence Orbach with WFW Editor Neil Beckett

 
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"For years I have been complaining that the wine world lacked a decent journal: something that didn’t rehash the same old stories each year, or dumb down its content to attract advertisers, but instead gave its writers the space to explore complex issues, stimulate the intellect, and challenge our preconceptions. Those around me can now pull their fingers out of their ears – I have found the publication I was longing for. It’s called The World of Fine Wine and the wine world (fine or otherwise) is a far better place for its existence."

Robert Walters, wine importer, retailer, and writer. Australia

 

 

The World of Fine Wine's award-winning editorial team is led by Hugh Johnson OBE, Andrew Jefford, and Neil Beckett

 

phpthumb3a_01 Our international contributors include

 

Mike Steinberger • Oz Clarke • Nicolas Belfrage MW
Huon Hooke David Peppercorn MWJohn Kapon
Serena Sutcliffe MWGerald Asher Allen Meadows
Randall Grahm • Jancis Robinson MWTim Atkin MW
Michael Broadbent MW David Schildknecht
 

Read what they say about The World of Fine Wine.

 

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

 

issue_4  View a summary of the main articles and tastings in

  previous issues of The World of Fine Wine.

 

  Every issue carries comment from regular columnists

  such as Hugh Johnson, Andrew Jefford, Michel

  Bettane, and Randall Grahm, as well as news,

  previews, reviews, auction analysis, miscellaneous

  tasting notes, a calendar of fine wine events and a

  directory of stockists worldwide.

 

EDITORIAL BOARD

Hugh Johnson • Marchese Piero Antinori  • Michel Bettane • Professor Alain Carbonneau •Thierry Desseauve • Paul Draper • David Elswood • James Halliday • Wilfred Jaeger • Anne-Claude Leflaive • Professor Ann Noble • Paul Pontallier • Professor Sakkie Pretorius • Christian Seely • Michael Prinz zu Salm-Salm • Paul Symington • Warren Winiarski • Franco Ziliani