2011 Louis Roederer International Wine Writers' Awards: shortlist

2009 winners

Shortlist 2011: 

(Congratulations to all shortlisted. Good to see a slightly more international feel to the shortlist this year and hope that this will be reflected in the winners to be announced in September. Still pretty UK dominated though but, of course, this may well just reflect who entered. Clearly if you don't enter you can't be shortlisted.)

Category 1 - International Wine Feature Writer of the Year 2011 

Tim Atkin M.W.
Articles from Decanter and The World of Fine Wine

Alice Feiring
Articles from Wine & Spirits, SFGate.com, The Wall Street Journal

Andrew Jefford
Articles from Decanter and The World of Fine Wine

Francis Percival
Articles from The World of Fine Wine

Margaret Rand
Articles from Decanter and The World of Fine Wine

Anthony Rose
Articles from Decanter

Category 2 - International Wine Columnist of the Year 2011

Tim Atkin M.W.
Columns from The Times and Off-Licence News

Poh Tiong Ch’ng
Columns from Decanter

Andrew Jefford
Columns from Decanter and The World of Fine Wine

Victoria Moore
Columns from The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph

Category 3 - International Wine Book of the Year 2011

Max Allen
The Future Makers: Australian Wines for the 21st Century (Hardie Grant Books)

Benjamin Lewin
Wine Myths and Reality (Vendange Press)

Jasper Morris M.W.
Inside Burgundy (Berry Bros & Rudd Press)

Keith Stewart
Chancers and Visionaries: A History of Wine in New Zealand (Godwit Books: Random House, NZ)

Terry Theise
Reading Between the Vines (University of California Press)

Category 4 - Regional Wine Writer of the Year 2011

Christine Austin
Articles from the Yorkshire Post

Tom Bruce-Gardyne
Articles from The Glasgow Herald

Rose Murray Brown M.W.
Articles from The Scotsman

Liz Sagues
Articles from Hampstead and Highgate Express

Category 5 - International Wine Publication of the Year 2011

Decanter Magazine

Fine Champagne Magazine

Meininger’s Wine Business International

The World of Fine Wine

Category 6 - International Wine Website of the Year 2011

Tim Atkin M.W.
www.timatkin.com

 

Tom Cannavan
www.wine-pages.com

 

Jamie Goode
www.wineanorak.com

 

Neal Martin
www.erobertparker.com Neal Martin’s Wine Journal

Category 7 - online Wine Columnist / Blogger of the Year 2011

Tim Atkin M.W.
Various from www.timatkin.com

Alice Feiring
Various from The Feiring Line www.alicefeiring.com

Jamie Goode
Various from www.wineanorak.com

Chris Kissack
Various from www.thewinedoctor.com

Peter Richards M.W.
Various from www.winchesterwineschool.com

 

Category 8 - Emerging Wine Writer of the Year 2011

Brad Baker
The Champagne Warrior Newsletter

Sophie Menin
Wine Stories from The Daily Beast 

Gabriel Savage
Articles from The Drinks Business

Category 9 - The Artistry of Wine Award 2011

Jamie Goode

Mick Rock

Clay McLachlan

Category 10 – International Champagne Writer of the Year 2011

Margaret Rand
Various entries from Decanter and The World of Fine Wine

Tyson Stelzer
The Champagne Guide 2011 ebook 

Tom Stevenson
A la Volée columns

The winners will be announced and the awards will be presented on Monday 19th September 2011 at a prestigious ceremony (by invitation only) at The Savoy Hotel, London.

2011 Judges 

Charles Metcalfe   
(chairman of the judges)

Author of numerous books including the Award-winning Wine and Food Lover’s Guide to Portugal, Wine Writer, Presenter, Co-chairman of the International Wine Challenge, and blogger thewinesinger.blog.co.uk

Jancis Robinson MW 

World-renowned wine authority, writer of innumerable books including The Oxford Companion to Wine and The World Atlas of Wine, weekly columnist of the Financial Times and editor of award-winning website www.jancisrobinson.com

Michael Edwards 

Former chief inspector of Egon Ronay’s restaurant guide, freelance writer, Champagne & Burgundy correspondent for The World of Fine Wine, contributor to the Drinks Business amongst others and author of award-winning books Champagne Companion and The Finest Wines of Champagne and blogger edwards-onwine

Simon Woods 

Five-time editor of the annual Which? Wine Guide, editor of the award-winning web-site www.simonwoods.com and award-winning author of titles including I don’t know much about wine but I know what I like and Vine to Bottle he also contributes to a wide variety of magazines, including Decanter, Square Meal, Harpers Wine & Spirit and Spectator Scoff.

Dr. Neil Beckett 

Neil Beckett is editor of The World of Fine Wine, an award-winning quarterly review on which he works with Hugh Johnson and Andrew Jefford. He is also general editor of the award-winning Finest Wines series of wine guides. He has won prizes for his writing on wine and is one of the two UK tasters on the Grand Jury Européen. www.finewinemag.com

Simon Loftus O.B.E.

Former Chairman and current non-executive Director of Adnams Brewery, where he transformed a small wine department into an award winning UK wine merchant and led the dramatic growth of the Adnams beer brand. Author of three books and editor of a series of six Guides to the Wines of France. Writer of  numerous articles on wine, food, travel and social history. Trustee of several Arts Foundations.

Victoria Hall 

Judge of the Artistry of Wine Award Victoria Hall has over fifteen years picture editing experience, and has spent the last five years as the Picture Editor of Decanter Magazine.
Following her MA in Fine art at Chelsea College of Art & Design she has also continued a career as a photographic artist. She has exhibited extensively with work held in numerous collections, including the Arts Council Collection, the Hiscox Collection and ICR Collection Oslo.