Shortlist for 2012 Louis Roederer Wine Writing Awards

The shortlist has just been announced for the 2012 Louis Roederer Wine Writing Awards. Many congratulations to all those shortlisted. The winners will be announced in London on 17th September.

Finalists 2012

Category 1
The Artistry of Wine Award 2012

Colin Hampden-White

Charles O’Rear

Mick Rock

Olivier Roux

Jon Wyand

Category 2
Emerging Wine Writer of the Year 2012

Evan Dawson | contributions to palatepress.com

Ella Lister | contributions to finewinemag.com

Fred Minnick | contributions to tastingpanelmag.com

Lucy Shaw | contributions to thedrinksbusiness.com

Erika Szymanski | contributions to palatepress.com

Category 3
online Wine Columnist / Blogger of the Year 2012

Joss Fowler | Various from www.vinolent.net

Richard Hemming | Various from www.jancisrobinson.com

Andrew Jefford | Various from www.decanter.com

Chris Kissack | Various from www.thewinedoctor.com

Category 4
International Wine Website of the Year 2012

Tim Atkin M.W. | www.timatkin.com

David Honig | www.palatepress.com

Peter Liem | www.champagneguide.net

Patrick Schmitt, Editor | www.thedrinksbusiness.com

Category 5
International Wine Publication of the Year 2012

Decanter Magazine, Guy Woodward, Editor

Tidings, Aldo Parise, Editor-in-Chief

The World of Fine Wine, Sara Morley, Publisher, Dr Neil Beckett, Editor

Category 6
Regional Wine Writer of the Year 2012

Christine Austin | Articles from the Yorkshire Post

Tom Bruce-Gardyne | Articles from The Glasgow Herald

Heather Dougherty | Articles from The Surrey Advertiser

Rose Murray Brown M.W. | Articles from The Scotsman

Category 7
International Wine Book of the Year 2012

Voodoo Vintners, Oregon’s Astonishing Biodynamic Winegrowers | Katherine Cole

Summer in a Glass | Evan Dawson

Dying on the Vine. How Phylloxera transformed wine | George Gale

Seasons of a Finger Lake Winery | John C Harstock

Category 8

International Wine Columnist of the Year 2012

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

Michael Fridjhon | Columns from Business Day, South Africa

Andrew Jefford | Columns from The World of Fine Wine

Francis Percival | Columns from The World of Fine Wine

Olly Smith | Columns from The Mail on Sunday

Category 9
International Wine Feature Writer of the Year 2012

Stephen Brook | Articles from Decanter

Alice Feiring | Articles from The World of Fine Wine

Joanna Gibson | Articles from WineStyle, Classic Wine, Good Taste, Wines of South Africa

Francis Percival | Articles from The World of Fine Wine

Gabriel Savage | Articles from The Drinks Business

John Stimpfig | Articles from the Financial Times 

Judges

Charles Metcalfe (chairman)
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 occasional blogger thewinesinger.blog.co.uk

Peter Richards MW 

Peter Richards is a writer, broadcaster and Master of Wine. A familiar face from BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen, Peter also appears on BBC Radio 4 (The Food Programme/You & Yours), has penned two books and writes regularly for international print publications. Together with his wife Susie Barrie MW he runs a wine school, wine club and website (www.susieandpeter.com). A chairman of the What Food What Wine competition and the Decanter World Wine Awards, Peter has previously received awards including the IWSC Communicator of the Year 2010 (jointly with Susie), a Gourmand World Award and Young Wine Writer of the Year.

Anthony Rose

Anthony Rose is the wine correspondent of The Independent. As a competition judge, Anthony has tasted his way around Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, California, Japan, China and France. He chairs the Australian panel and Retailer of the Year panel for the Decanter World Wine Awards, gives wine talks and contributes to the World of Fine Wine, Jancis Robinson’s Oxford Companion to Wine and Decanter Magazine. He also teaches at Leith’s School of Food & Wine. He has won several awards for his wine writing including, most recently, Louis Roederer International Columnist of the Year 2008 and the Glenfiddich Wine Writer of the Year Award 2005. In November 2008, he launched thewww.thewinegang.com with a team of four other wine writers and has a blog and website at www.anthonyrosewine.com.

Jamie Goode 

Jamie Goode is a London based wine writer. After completing a PhD he worked for several years as a science editor before launching www.wineanorak.com, now one of the leading wine websites. Since 2005 he has been wine columnist for The Sunday Express, and has published two books: Wine Science (2005) and Authentic Wine (2011, with co-author Sam Harrop MW).

Margaret Rand 

Margaret Rand writes regularly for Decanter, the World of Fine Wine and Drinks Business and occasionally for the Financial Times; she is General Editor of Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book and the Author (with Oz Clarke) of Grapes and Wines (Little Brown 2001). She is an international wine judge and a previous winner at the Roederer Awards.

Liz Sagues 

Liz Sagues has been writing about wine for more than 20 years. For her weekly columns in the Ham&High Series of papers in London she has twice won the Louis Roederer Regional Wine Writer of the year title, in 2011 and 2005, and has been shortlisted on three other occasions. Liz has travelled widely in European wine regions, regularly judges in the International Wine Challenge, runs consumer wine tastings and is deputy editor of the Circle of Wine Writers' newsletter, Circle Update.

Victoria Hall – artistry of wine award co-ordinator  

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.