contributors


William Kelley studied history for eight years at Oxford, where he presided over the university’s Wine Circle, the oldest tasting group of its kind. Regular tastings with the globe’s greatest producers and visits to their vineyards drew him deeper into the world of wine. On completing his doctorate, he worked harvests in Napa Valley, the Côte de Beaune, and the Côte de Nuits. Today, he reviews Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, English sparkling wine, and Madeira for The Wine Advocate and makes a little wine of his own in Clarksburg, CA, and Chambolle-Musigny.


Anne Krebiehl MW is a freelance wine writer and lecturer. She contributes widely to trade and consumer titles in the UK, USA, Germany, and Austria. She also lectures, especially on German wine, consults for London


restaurants, and judges at international wine competitions. Her interests are German, Austrian, Italian, and New Zealand wines, and her particular focus is on Pinot Noir, Riesling, and traditional- method sparkling wines. Anne was admitted to the Institute of Masters of Wine in September 2014. She has been editor-in-chief of Falstaff International and published her first book, The Wines of Germany, in 2019. She now covers Austria and Germany for Vinous.


Adam Lechmere is a freelance journalist, consultant editor of Club Oenologique, and general manager of the IWSC Foundation, dedicated to improving diversity in wine and hospitality worldwide. Formerly editor of decanter.com, which he launched in 2000, he has been writing about wine for more than 20 years, contributing to Decanter, The World of Fine Wine, Meininger’s, The Guardian, and others. Before joining the wine world, he worked for the BBC.


Robin Lee is a writer and journalist born in New York City and based in London since 1986, though for some of that time she lived in Venice, Italy. She has worked as a freelance writer and curator and was a leader writer on The Daily Telegraph. She now writes a regular column about wine for the UK ecology magazine Resurgence & Ecologist and is also working on a documentary about biodynamic wine for the BBC.


Benjamin Lewin MW made his first career in science as editor of the renowned biology journal Cell. Since becoming a Master of Wine, he has published several books, including What Price Bordeaux?, In Search of Pinot Noir, Claret and Cabs, Wines of France, a revised edition of his Wine Myths and Realities (2017), and annual national and regional Guides to Wines and Top Vineyards covering France, Germany, Italy, and Portugal, several of which have been shortlisted for André Simon and Roederer awards. He wants wine to be regarded as an appropriate subject for popular but serious books. His main interest is in the classic wine regions of Europe, and he divides his time between the east coast of the United States and London.


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Judy O’Kane worked the 2009 harvest in St-Estèphe and trained at Ballymaloe Cookery School on sabbatical from partnership in a legal practice. She completed a PhD at the University of East Anglia and holds the WSET diploma. Judy won the National Memory Day Prize, the Charles Causley Poetry Prize, the Irish Post Prize, and the Listowel Writers Week Original Poem Prize. Her prose work Thirst, an exploration of terroir, a work in progress, was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Award by the Biographers’ Club. Judy has read at the House of Lords, at Pinot Celebration, New Zealand, and elsewhere.


Sarah Marsh MW is a wine critic and writer who has contributed to many newspapers and magazines about wine, but also travel, food, and design. She has a background in the wine trade, working for the Champagne


Bureau and as the New World wine buyer for Armit. After writing her MW dissertation in 2004 on clonal selection of Pinot Noir on the Côte d’Or, she focused on Burgundy, launching The Burgundy Briefing website, and has since written an in-depth en primeur vintage report about Burgundy for 16 vintages. In 2017, she began making a few barrels of her own wine, with the unusual approach of buying small quantities of grapes from well-known domaines in Meursault, Gevrey-Chambertin, and Volnay, in a bid to deepen her understanding of terroir and the role of the winemaker in translating this into bottle. She successfully distributed her first vintage through London restaurants and clubs. The 2018 vintage will be released shortly.


Michael Palij MWemigrated from Canada to the UK in 1989 and qualified as a Master of Wine in 1995, aged just 29. His first trip to Italy was as a wine buyer in 1994. He promptly fell in love with both the country and its wines and subsequently visited Italy on more than 100 occasions, learning about its history, grape varieties, and terroir. Michael now writes and teaches widely on his specialist subject. He lives in Oxford.


Rod Phillips is a wine historian, author, and writer. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and is professor of history at Carleton University, where he teaches courses on the history of food and drink. His recent books include Wine: A Social and Cultural History of the Drink that Changed Our Lives (2018), 9000 Years of Wine: A World History (2017), The Wines of Canada (2017), French Wine: A History (2016), and Alcohol: A History (2014, paperback 2019). His books have been widely translated. He is currently writing books on the wines of southwest France, Burgundy (the wine and the place), and Cabernet Franc (plantings and wines throughout the world). He travels widely, reviews wines, and judges at wine competitions.


Margaret Rand is an award-winning wine writer who contributes to The World of Fine Wine, winesearcher.com, and Gourmet Traveller Wine and is general editor of Hugh Johnson’s annual Pocket Wine Book. In the deep past, she edited Opera Now, Wine International, and Wine and Spirit International, was founding editor of Whisky Magazine, and coauthored Grapes and Wines with Oz Clarke. Her latest book is 101 Wines to Try Before You Die.


Anthony Rose contributes regularly to The World of Fine Wine, Decanter, The Real Review, the FT’s How to Spend It, and The Oxford Companion to Wine. He is the panel chair for southern Italy at the Decanter World Wine Awards. Anthony served as wine correspondent of The Independent for 30 years and has won a number of awards, among them three Glenfiddich Wine Writer of the Year prizes, and a Louis Roederer Champagne Writer of the Year Award. He is the author of Sake and the Wines of Japan (Infinite Ideas, 2018), which was nominated for Drink Book of the Year at the 2019 Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards. His book, Fizz! Champagne and Sparkling Wines of the World in the same series, published in November 2021, was nominated in the Drinks Book category in the Guild of Food Writers Annual Awards 2022. Anthony is a founding member of The Wine Gang, has his own blog on anthonyrosewine.com, and is on Twitter at @anthonyrosewine.


Nick Ryan fell into wine by getting a job with Sydney’s leading wine merchant while taking a break from loitering at university. Once in, he made no real effort to get out. He is the wine writer for Australia’s national newspaper The Australian, a columnist for Adelaide’s Sunday Mail, and a regular contributor to several magazines including The Robb Report, Gourmet Traveller Wine, and GQ.Now safely tucked away in the Clare Valley with his partner and three children who daily make him grateful for his cellar, he stubbornly ignores the abundant evidence that tells him his dream of playing center half forward for the Port Adelaide Football Club is looking ever more unlikely.


David Schildknecht trained in philosophy and worked as a restaurateur before spending a quarter-century in the wine trade. He has written for The Wine Advocate on Austria, Germany, and much of France and now reviews wines from Austria, Germany, and the Loire for Vinous. He is also a columnist for Vinaria and The World of Fine Wine, as well as a contributor to Wine & Spirits. He is responsible for the German wine entries in The Oxford Companion to Wine.


Michael Schuster is a wine writer and lecturer who ran his own wine school in London, providing courses and tastings for absolute beginners, to budding Masters of Wine. He lived and worked in Bordeaux for two years, holds the Tasting diploma from Bordeaux University, and translated Emile Peynaud’s Le Goût du Vin into English. Among his own books is Essential Winetasting, which won the trio of André Simon, Glenfiddich, and Lanson awards in 2001 and was republished in a revised edition in 2017. As a respite from matters vinous, he enjoys gardening, a wide range of music, and, especially, entertaining with his wife Monika.


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