Congratulations to all those shortlisted
On Wednesday 10th July the Roederer Awards
Judging Panel met at the Maisons Marques et Domaines headquarters in London to
discuss in detail their scores for the entries in the Louis Roederer
International Wine Writers’ Awards 2013.
Despite a series of computer crashes, late
nights and weekends spent marking to ensure all the scores were ready on time,
the panel were alert and sharp-witted and spent a number of hours engaged in
good-humoured debate as to whose submissions were worthy of making it onto the
prestigious shortlist for 2013.
Charles Metcalfe, Chairman of the Judges,
concluded that ‘we had more entries this year than ever before and the sheer
quality of the entries in several categories made for lively debate before we
decided on the winners.’ The effort put in by such a distinguished panel of
judges mirrors the quality of some of the submissions and there was a
remarkable degree of unanimity in the scoring, although picking the overall
winners was a lengthier task.
However, by lunchtime, the shortlist was
agreed upon and the judges were rewarded with a glass of Louis Roederer Cristal
2005 followed by a delicious lunch at Chez Bruce which was complemented by the
wines from our 2013 category sponsors Domaines Ott, Ramos Pinto, Domaine
Faiveley and Meerlust Estate.
An invitation-only Awards Ceremony will be
taking place to announce the winners at the Royal Academy of Arts on Tuesday
10th September 2013.
Champagne Louis Roederer and the Judges of
the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers' Awards 2013 are delighted to
announce this year's shortlist:
CATEGORY 1 – THE ARTISTRY OF WINE AWARD
2013
- Rocco Ceselin
- Matt Wilson
- Alisdair Nicol
- Jon Wyand
- Alain Proust
- Michel Joly
- David Eley
CATEGORY 2 – MEERLUST ESTATE EMERGING WINE
WRITER OF THE YEAR 2013
- Simon Woolf: various from www.timatkin.com / www.palatepress.com
/ www.themorningclaret.com
- Lucy Shaw: articles from www.drinksbusiness.com
- Ella Lister: articles from www.finewinemag.com
- Rupert Millar
Articles from www.drinksbusiness.com
- Evan Dawson: articles from www.palatepress.com
CATEGORY 3 – RAMOS PINTO ONLINE WINE
COLUMNIST / BLOGGER OF THE YEAR 2013
- Blake Gray: articles from www.palatepress.com
- Alex Hunt: articles from www.jancisrobinson.com
- Kate Thal: articles from www.greenandbluewines.com
- Sarah Abbott: articles from www.timatkin.com
- Robert Joseph: articles from www.timatkin.com
- Joe Wadsack: articles from www.joewadsack.com
CATEGORY 4 – DOMAINE FAIVELEY INTERNATIONAL
WINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013
- Pomerol: Neal Martin
- Sherry, Manzanilla & Montilla – A
Guide to the Traditional Wines of Andalucia:
Peter Liem and Jesus Barquin
- Wine Grapes: Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding, José
Vouillamoz
- The Finest Wines of Germany - A Regional
Guide to the Best Producers and Their Wines: Stephan Reinhardt:
Bordeaux Legends: Jane Anson
CATEGORY 5 – DOMAINES OTT INTERNATIONAL
WINE WEBSITE OF THE YEAR 2013
- www.timatkin.com: entered by Tim Atkin M.W.
- www.thewinedoctor.com: entered by Chris Kissack
- www.wine-pages.com: entered by Tom Cannavan
- www.wineanorak.com: entered by Jamie Goode
- www.palatepress.com: entered by David Honig
- www.wine-searcher.com: entered by Rebecca Gibb
CATEGORY 6 – INTERNATIONAL WINE COLUMNIST
OF THE YEAR 2013
- Tim Atkin MW: columns from Off Licence News
- Michael Fridjhon: columns from Business Day, South Africa
- Francis Percival: columns from The World of Fine Wine
- David Schildknecht: columns from The World of Fine Wine
- Tom Bruce-Gardyne: columns from the Glasgow Herald
- Nina Caplan: columns from the New Statesman
CATEGORY 7 – INTERNATIONAL WINE FEATURE
WRITER OF THE YEAR 2013
- Margaret Rand: various features from The Drinks
Business/Decanter/World of Fine Wine
John Stimpfig: The Financial Times, How to Spend It
- Tim Atkin MW: various features from Imbibe/Decanter/World
of Fine Wine/Gourmet Traveller Wine
- Jamie Goode: various features from World of Fine
Wine/Nature
- Michael Edwards: The Drinks Business
- Joanne Gibson: Classic Wine, South Africa
The Panel of 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 occasional blogger
thewinesinger.blog.co.uk
Susy Atkins
Susy Atkins is the wine columnist for the
Sunday Telegraph Stella magazine, the drinks editor of Delicious magazine and a
regular presenter on BBC1's Saturday Kitchen. She is the author of eight wine
and drinks books, and for several years was co-editor of the Which? Wine Guide.
Susy regularly speaks on wine at tasting events and food festivals across the
UK.
Susy has won the Glenfiddich and Lanson
awards for her wine writing, was the IWSC Communicator of the Year 2004 and
last year won the Food and Travel Magazine Readers' Award for best drinks book.
Andrew Jefford
Andrew Jefford has been writing about wine
(as well as, less frequently, whisky, beer, travel, tea, food, philosophy and
perfume) since 1988. He is currently a columnist and contributing editor for
both World of Fine Wine and Decanter magazine, and writes a weekly blog column
for www.decanter.com('Jefford on Monday'). After 15 months in Australia between
2009 and 2010, during which he was a Visiting Research Fellow at Adelaide
University, he now lives with his family in the Languedoc, where he is (slowly)
writing a book on terroir in Australia. Previous books have included The New
France, Peat Smoke and Spirit and Andrew Jefford's Wine Course. He also writes
haiku on twitter (@andrewcjefford).
Anthony Rose
Anthony Rose is the wine correspondent of
the Independent and the i newspapers in the UK. He is also a columnist with The
Shanghai Daily and contributes, among other publications, to Decanter Magazine
and The World of Fine Wine. He teaches the Leiths School of Food & Wine
Certificate and trains restaurant staff on sake. He chairs the Decanter World
Wine Awards Australia panel and the Decanter Wine Retailer Awards panel and has
nosed his way around the world in wine competitions in Australia, New Zealand,
South Africa, Chile, California, Japan, China, Germany and France.
Anthony’s awards include the Louis Roederer International Wine Columnist of the Year 2008 and Glenfiddich Wine Writer of the Year 2005. He is a founding member of The Wine Gang at www.thewinegang.com, has a blog on his website: www.anthonyrosewine.com and is on Twitter @antrose33.
Patrick Schmitt
Patrick Schmitt is editor-in-chief at The
Drinks Business. He writes for and manages the European and Hong Kong editions
of The Drinks Business, as well as the printed product’s website
thedrinksbusiness.com. He also chairs the publication’s annual awards programme,
including The Drinks Business Awards for product innovations and environmental
initiatives, as well as the magazine’s Champagne and Rioja Masters, for which
he heads up a tasting panel of wine experts.
Patrick has been shortlisted two years running
for editor of the year in the business and professional category for the
British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME). He is currently studying for his
Master of Wine qualification and, as part of this, has been awarded the
Esterhazy and Reh Kendermann bursaries as well as the AXA Millésimes and
Yalumba scholarships.
Neil Beckett
Dr Neil Beckett began his career as an
academic historian. But equally interested in wine, he soon wanted to spend
more time down in the cellar than up in the ivory tower. In 2000 he became
senior feature writer for Harpers, of which he became contributing editor and
for which he wrote a regular column. In 2004 he became the first editor of The
World of Fine Wine, an award-winning quarterly review on which he works with
Hugh Johnson and Andrew Jefford. Since 2009 he has also been general editor of
the Finest Wines series of regional guides, published with University of
California Press. He has judged around the world, won prizes for his writing on
wine, and is one of the two UK tasters on the Grand Jury Européen.
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