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Tom Wark, Fermentation.typepad.com 

PUBLICATION DATES

The World of Fine Wine is published four times a year.

2012 publication dates:

Issue 35 - 23 March

Issue 36 - 22 June

Issue 37 - 21 September

Issue 38 - 10 December

We are so pleased that you are visiting the website of our quarterly journal, The World
of Fine Wine. In the journal we aim to take
wine publishing in a new, more sophisticated direction. The editorial team is led by Hugh Johnson OBE, and our contributors include
Jancis Robinson MW, Andrew Jefford, Michel Bettane, Tim Atkin MW, Clive Coates MW,
Michael Schuster and Tom Stevenson.After seven years WFW is well established in over
30 countries.

WFW wins at the
Roederer Awards

For the second year running, The World of Fine Wine has won the Louis Roederer Award for International Wine Publication of the Year. Editor Neil Beckett  and Publisher Sara Morley collected the prestigious prize at a glittering event held on Monday 12th September at the Savoy Hotel in Central London, confirming once again WFW’s preeminent position as the most respected wine magazine in the world.

The prizes were presented by the Louis Roederer Managing Director
Frédéric Rouzaud. The Louis Roederer International Wine Writers’ Awards are one of the most glamorous events of the international wine calendar and the awards are highly coveted.

In other award categories, WFW writers were repeatedly recognized for the quality and originality of their writing. WFW Contributing Editor Andrew Jefford was named International Wine Feature Writer of the Year. Tim Atkin MW was nominated in four categories and took the prize for International Wine Website of the Year. Alice Feiring, a contributor to our latest edition (No.33, September) was recognized as International Online Wine Columnist/Blogger of the Year. Tom Stevenson, Margaret Rand, and Francis Percival were shortlisted for articles in WFW and elsewhere, while other regular contributors to the magazine—Benjamin Lewin MW, Jasper Morris MW, Jamie Goode, Anthony Rose, and Terry Theise—were nominated in other categories.

Neil Beckett commented: “We were astonished and very delighted to win for the second year in a row. But we commission out almost all of our articles, to the most authoritative and entertaining writers we can find, so the achievement is really theirs. We are extremely grateful to all of them, and are pleased that so many of them are individually recognized in this year’s Roederer Awards. There were more than 200 entries this year, almost twice as many as last year, and there were four times as many international entries, so the competition was stiffer than ever and the general standard very high.This is striking testimony to the respect that Champagne Louis Roederer and Charles Metcalfe, Chairman of the Judges, have won for the Awards through their generous support and rigorous oversight, and it is fitting that the company has itself recently been recognized by the French Government for its outstanding contribution to cultural heritage.”

The World of Fine Wine is also a past winner of the prestigious Gourmand Award for the World’s Best Wine Magazine.

To read articles by WFW contributors who were nominees or winners at this year’s Roederer Awards, please click on the 'Sample Features' tab at the top of this page.

IN THE LATEST ISSUE: WFW 34

In-depth tastings:

Bordeaux 2007: Michael Schuster reviews an interesting, if variable, vintage, on which Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve add their comments and notes
Red Burgundy 2008: Clive Coates MW introduces a tasting of 300 grands and premiers crus, with notes by Jasper Morris MW, Roy Richards, and Neil Beckett
Blanc de Noirs Champagne: Tom Stevenson, Essi Avellan MW, and Simon Field MW call attention to the most widespread and revealing tasting of blanc de noirs in 30 years
Zinfandel: Stephen Brook, Anthony Rose, and Alex Hunt MW discover diversity and texture in California’s signature variety
Sauternes v Barsac: Stephen Brook, Margaret Rand, and Michael Schuster compare Bordeaux’s greatest sweet wines from the highly regarded 2001 and 2007 vintages

Authoritative features from the world’s best wine writers, including:

Robert Walters presents a radical personal view of the region from past to present, in the first of a three-part series examining Champagne’s status as a fine wine
W Blake Gray examines the changes in wine production on Madeira
Michael Steinberger explores the paradox of high wine prices and the massive investments needed to ensure the highest quality
Terry Theise makes the case for authenticity and honesty, the starting points for the most profound taste experiences
Stephen Brook explores the life and wines of the patriarch of modern California Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, Ted Lemon

Plus outspoken and provocative columns from our regular contributors: Hugh Johnson, David Schildknecht, Tom Stevenson, Rebecca Leung, Michel Bettane and others

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Publication date for the next issue: 23 March 2012

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

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