Awards and citations:


1997: Le Prix du Champagne Lanson Noble Cuvée Award for investigations into Champagne for the Millennium investment scams

2001: Le Prix Champagne Lanson Ivory Award for investdrinks.org

2011: Vindic d'Or MMXI – 'Meilleur blog anti-1855'

2011: Robert M. Parker, Jnr: ‘This blogger...’:

2012: Born Digital Wine Awards: No Pay No Jay – best investigative wine story

2012: International Wine Challenge – Personality of the Year Award




Thursday 30 April 2015

2015 Decanter World Wine Awards: some photos

Judges listening as Sarah Kemp and Steven Spurrier 
set the scene for the day
– how to deal with over 16,000 wines @Tobacco Dock
DWWA judges gathering at the start  of the day

Nigel Wilkinson (RSJ Restaurant) judging Loires

Up at 3.20am to fly south from Edinburgh 
Chris Kissack (The Wine Doctor) is admirably awake

 Nicolas Clerc MS (Morris & Verdin)
Nicolas joined the Loire panel for two days 



Ian d'Agata

Monty Waldin – the UK PetNat guy

Mai Tjemsland MW

  Pedro Ballesteros Torres MW 
taking an exploratory sip of water...
not sure it will catch on 

Shane Jones, the Red Shirt who looked after 
our Loire panel brilliantly on Tuesday and Wednesday 








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