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Wine Advocate
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Wine Advocate,® "The Independent Consumer's Bimonthly Guide to Fine Wine", is published
by Robert M. Parker, Jr. Each issue consists of around 48 pages of wine tasting
notes and includes no advertising.
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Wine Spectator
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 The
Wine Spectator provides wine lovers with in-depth articles on fine wine, dining,
travel, as well as extensive reviews on specific new releases.
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International Wine Cellar
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IWC provides extensive coverage of the world of fine wine. This critically acclaimed,
independent, bimonthly publication is read by wine lovers in 28 countries. Every
issue includes in-depth articles and interviews, plus tasting notes on over 500
wines.
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The Vine
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 Clive
Coates MW (Master of Wine) is one of the world's leading wine authorities. Coates
has published The Vine, his independent fine wine magazine, since 1985.
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Burghound
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Burghound.com is the result of a lifelong passion for the wine of Burgundy. For more than 25 years, Allen Meadows has been collecting the wines and visiting the region. In the year 2005 alone, he spent more than three months visiting, researching, tasting, exploring and evaluating. Burgundy is his obsession really.
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We use the scores of a number of famous wine writers. If you want to know more about
the persons behind these scores and how to get into contact with them, just click
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Robert Parker (WA)
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 Robert
Parker is recognized as the single most influential writer in the wine industry,
Robert Parker publishes his own journal: the Wine Advocate. This publication
appears six times a year and provides reviews and information on wines from all
over the world.
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Antonio Galloni (WA)
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 With
parents who retailed Italian wines and a grandfather who loved the great wines of
Bordeaux and the Rhône, Antonio's exposure to wine started at an early age. He was
reading avidly about the world's major winemaking regions as a teenager and wrote
his first articles on the wines of France for a high-school French class.
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Neal Martin (WA)
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 "Given
my vocation as a “wine writer”, one might expect me to recall sepia-tinged memories
in the family library, when my aristocratic father, an epicurean and wine connoisseur,
offered his eldest son a sip of Yquem or Latour one fateful evening."
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Jay Miller (WA)
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 Dr.
Jay Stuart Miller was a Clinical Psychologist specializing in child, adolescent
and family therapy on a full time basis from 1973-1998 and a part time basis from
1998-2001. He received his B.A. degree from the University of California in Los
Angles in 1967 and his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from the University of Maryland at
College Park in 1970 and 1972.
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David Schildknecht (WA)
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 After
a brief stint in academe and several years in the restaurant business, David Schildknecht
logged more than a decade as a wine retailer in Washington, DC. with the late Rex
Wine & Spirits (from 1982), with Mayflower Wine and Spirits, and lastly with
Pearson’s.
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Mark Squires (WA)
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 Mark
Squires was a lawyer in Philadelphia, class of '78, although he does not practice
much any more. He began traveling extensively in France in 1981. At the time, the
only wines he drank were things like Bolla Soave and Mouton Cadet, which he thought
was the good stuff.
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Kevin Zraly (WA)
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 Kevin
Zraly is arguably the best known wine educator on earth. He was wine director for
the Windows on the World restaurant atop New York's World Trade Center from 1976
until its destruction on September 11th, 2001.
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Pierre Rovani (WA)
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 Robert
M. Parker, Jr., widely considered to be the most powerful critic in the world, asked
Pierre Rovani to join him in 1996. Since then, Mr. Rovani has been responsible for
the tasting and criticism of more than half of the world's wine producing regions.
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Harvey Steiman (WS)
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 Harvey
Steiman, 52, tastes and reports on a wide variety of wine types, but his primary
areas of responsibility as a critic are Australia and the Pacific Northwest. Steiman
joined Wine Spectator in 1984, after serving as food and wine editor of the San
Francisco Examiner.
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James Laube (WS)
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 James
Laube, 48, is Wine Spectator's senior expert on the major wine types of California.
He has been writing for the magazine since 1980, and joined the staff full-time
in 1983.
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James Suckling (WS)
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 James
Suckling, 41, joined Wine Spectator in 1981, when it was based in San Diego. He
moved with the magazine to San Francisco in 1982, and in 1985 was reassigned to
Europe. He lived in Paris for two years and then moved to London, where he resided
for 11 years. He now lives in Tuscany, Italy.
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Per-Henrik Mansson (WS)
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Per-Henrik
Mansson, 49, is Wine Spectator's leading critic on Burgundy and also does regular
tasting and reporting on the Rhone. He does news and investigative reporting throughout
Europe. Mansson joined Wine Spectator in 1987 in San Francisco, and has been based
in Europe since 1989, first in London, now in Switzerland.
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Thomas Matthews (WS)
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 Thomas
Matthews, 46, has been writing for Wine Spectator since 1987, when he was a freelancer
living in Bordeaux. Hired full-time in 1988, Matthews served first in the London
office, then was reassigned to New York.
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Kim Marcus (WS)
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 Kim
Marcus, 40, joined the Wine Spectator staff in 1988 in San Francisco and was reassigned
to New York in 1993. He has been a regular taster since 1990. He also authors regular
tasting reports on great-value wines.
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Bruce Sanderson (WS)
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 Bruce
Sanderson, 43, joined Wine Spectator in 1993 after working for the previous five
years as a wine steward and in retail wine sales. He oversees the tasting operations
in New York, San Francisco and Europe.
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Stephen Tanzer (WC)
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 Stephen
Tanzer is editor and publisher of the critically acclaimed bimonthly International Wine Cellar.
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Clive Coates (TV)
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 Clive
Coates MW (Master of Wine) is one of the world's leading wine authorities. Coates
has published The Vine, his independent fine wine magazine, since 1985.
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Jean-Marc Quarin (QUA)
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 Jean-Marc
Quarin was born in 1955 in the Châteauneuf du pape appellation. His grandparents
were winegrowers, in Italy on his father's side and in the Languedoc-Roussillon region
on his mother's side.
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Allen Meadows (BH)
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 Clive
Allen Meadows was a finance executive for 25 years, holding a variety of positions, including stints as the senior vice-president and director of corporate development for Great Western Financial and chief financial officer for Fidelity National.
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