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PROMOTING DWWA 2020 the World’S Largest & Most Influential Wine Competition PROMOTING DWWA 2020 The world’s largest & most influential wine competition DECANTER MAGAZINE DEDICATED DWWA 2020 DECANTER.COM DWWA FEATURES SUPPLEMENT WEEKLY DWWA FEATURES Every issue of Decanter will now The Decanter January 2021 issue Weekly DWWA 2020 features, include 1-2 pages dedicated solely will include the Decanter World including tasting notes, will be 1 to DWWA award-winning wines, 2 Wine Awards supplement – 3 published on Decanter.com and quotes from producers and/or dedicated entirely to the 2020 included on the homepage for commentary from DWWA judges. competition’s award-winning wines. maximum coverage. Meet the experts ALSACE Klintberg n Jorge Lucki n Eduardo Milan n Christopher Tanghe MS n Raimonds Tomsons Anthony Rose REGIONAL CHAIR JUDGES BY REGION Rose is a wine and ASIA sake critic who Our experts travelled from all corners of the globe to judge the wines submitted to DWWA, Thierry Meyer contributes to REGIONAL CHAIR with 36 Regional Chairs for each winemaking region selected to support the Chairman Alsace born and bred, Decanter, and FT How Meyer began writing To Spend It online, Emeritus and the three competition Co-Chairs. Read on to learn more about these experts, about wine in 1999, Ch’ng Poh Tiong among other titles. and to discover the names of the 237 judges who tasted and assessed the wines this year sharing tasting notes A lawyer by training, He is the author of and insights into the Ch’ng published the Sake and the Wines of wines of Alsace world’s first Chinese Japan and teaches a sake consumer course Read in countries online. In 2001, he Guide to Bordeaux in at Sake No Hana. He is currently writing CHAIRMAN EMERITUS focus on consultancy and writing. His awards started his signature 2000. He also writes Fizz, Champagne and Sparkling Wines of the 49,000+ include: Decanter Hall of Fame Award 2017, La dinner series, dedicated to pairing Alsace columns in Wine Life World. He has won a number of awards, Steven Spurrier Personnalité de l’Année (oenology) 1988 for services wines with fine food. He then founded and RVF China. For among them three Glenfiddich Wine 100+ Decanter’s consultant editor joined the wine trade to French wine, and the Maestro Award 2011 in L’Oenothèque Alsace society in 2006 and nearly 20 years he has Writer of the Year Awards and a Louis in London in 1964, later moving to Paris where he honour of California legend André Tchelistcheff. launched www.oenoalsace.com, one of the been consultant to FairPrice, Singapore’s Roederer International Wine Columnist of bought a wine shop in 1971 and opened France’s Spurrier is honorary president of the Wine & Spirit most comprehensive websites dedicated to largest supermarket chain. Ch’ng is also a the Year Award. Rose is a founding first private wine school, L’Academie du Vin, in Education Trust and the owner of Dorset’s Bride the region’s wines. At the same time Meyer senior judge at other wine competitions member of The Wine Gang. 1973. Spurrier staged the historic 1976 Judgement Valley Vineyard. In 2019 he co-founded the Académie launched a programme of masterclasses and contributes to the China, Japan and JUDGES of Paris tasting between wines from California and du Vin Library, a publishing venture to reissue past and dinners with Alsace wines. From 2007 India sections of Hugh Johnson’s Pocket n Hamish Anderson n Alan Bednarski France. In the 1980s he wrote several wine books publications and to create the best new books for to 2011, Meyer was a contributing editor Wine Book. Holding a certificate in Chinese n Wojciech Bońkowski n James Davis MW global circulation and created the Christie’s Wine Course with the future, the first being the commemorative to the Bettane + Desseauve Guide des Vins. art from the University of London’s School n Geoffrey Dean n Nick Dumergue n Caroline Michael Broadbent, in 1988 returning to the UK to edition of Broadbent’s seminal Wine Tasting. In 2014 he took responsibility for the new of Oriental and African Studies, Ch’ng is Hermann MW n Martin Hudson MW n Keith Alsace Master-level education program for an ambassador for The European Fine Art Isaac MW n David Jean n Roger Jones the Wine Scholar Guild. Foundation (TEFAF) Maastricht. n Regine Lee MW n Stefan Metznern Peter CO-CHAIR CO-CHAIR CO-CHAIR JUDGES JUDGES Nixon n Rebecca Palmer n Jane Parkinson n n Marcel Orford-Williams n Aristide Spies MS n Olga Crawford MW n Peter Csizmadia-Honigh Piotr Pietras MS n Valentin Radosav n Martin Sarah Jane Evans MW Michael Hill Smith MW Andrew Jefford n Eric Zwiebel MS n Emma Dawson MW n Andy De Brouwer Reyes MW n Clément Robert MS n Jonas Evans is an award- In 1988, Hill Smith Jefford has judged n Nick Dumergue n Alexandre Freguin n Agnes Röjerman MW n Julia Sewell n Andrew Shaw winning journalist became the first in every edition of Herczeg n Sinisa Lasan n Victoria Mason n Erik Simonics n Larry Stone MS n Gill Sykes who began writing Australian to pass DWWA and the ARGENTINA & REST OF SOUTH n Robert Mathias n Caro Maurer MW n Nikita n Christopher Tanghe MS n Nigel Wilkinson MS about wine in the the Master of Wine Decanter Asia Wine AMERICA (excluding Chile) Mooij n Mikolaj Skrzypczak 1980s. She started examination, Awards. He has REGIONAL CHAIR drinking Sherry and winning the been writing and AUSTRIA 600,000+ users AUSTRALIA Spanish wine while inaugural Madame broadcasting about REGIONAL CHAIR REGIONAL CHAIRS a student at Bollinger Tasting wine – as well as Patricio Tapia Cambridge Medal in the same food, whisky, travel Tapia graduated with Markus Del Monego University. This sparked her lifelong love year. Co-founder of Shaw & Smith in the and perfume – since the 1980s, winning a degree in journalism Huon Hooke of Spain’s wines, food and culture, Adelaide Hills and Tolpuddle Vineyard in numerous awards including eight from the Universidad Hooke is Australia’s MW culminating in membership of the Gran Tasmania, Hill Smith is a respected Roederer Awards and eight Glenfiddich de Chile in Santiago, leading independent Del Monego holds the Orden de Caballeros del Vino for services international wine judge and a wine Awards. He writes a monthly column and before attending wine writer, based in title of Best Sommelier to Spanish wine. In 2006 she became a consultant to Singapore Airlines. He is also occasional features for Decanter magazine, Bordeaux University Sydney, who also of the World 1998, Master of Wine, writing her dissertation a tireless advocate for Australian fine wine and his books include Andrew Jefford’s in France, where he judges wine and is both wine on Sherry and winning the Robert and in 2008 was awarded an Order of Wine Course (new edition 2018) and Peat studied for a diploma competitions and advisor to Lufthansa 850+ Mondavi Winery Award. A past chairman Australia (AM) for his contribution to the Smoke and Spirit on Islay and its whiskies, in wine tasting and winemaking. educates on wine. airlines and owner- of the Institute of Masters of Wine, Evans Australian wine industry. In addition to republished in 2019 as Whisky Island, as Currently, he is Wine & Spirits magazine’s A journalist first and managing director of divides her time between writing for his co-Chair role at the DWWA he is also a well as the acclaimed classic The New critic for the wines of Argentina, Chile and wine professional second, he has tertiary consultancy company 30% magazines such as Decanter, writing books Vice-Chair at the DAWA. France (2002). He also acts as academic Spain, regularly contributing articles on qualifications in both fields, and has also tasteTainment GmbH. Based in Germany, and judging internationally. advisor to The Wine Scholar Guild. these regions, and for the past nine years worked in wineries and wine retailing. he advises merchants, producers and Tapia has been a host on the El Gourmet Among other publications, he contributes private individuals on wine. Born in 1.3 million channel in South America. His career has to Gourmet Traveller Wine, The Sydney Switzerland, Del Monego grew up in seen him visit wine regions around the Morning Herald’s Good Food section and Germany, beginning hotelier training at USA & world, and he has authored several books, Good Weekend magazine, and Decanter. the Dorint Resort & Spa in Bad Brückenau. award-winning including The Wines of Colchagua Valley, He was co-author of The Penguin Good He worked as a sommelier in the Fairmont DECANTER TodoVino, Wines for Great Occasions, and Australian Wine Guide for 14 years until Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten in Hamburg, and his annual Descorchados, an Argentinian, 2007. In 2012 heThe launched wo rtheld’s web- be andst winlatere m atag theaz Dorintine Park Hotel Bremen and Chilean and Uruguayan wine guide, phone-based app, huonhooke.com. He has The Savoy in London. Del Monego is also Canada 16% published in both Spanish and English. won 11 awards for wine writing since a Master of Sake, a Sake Samurai, an JUDGES 1984 and has published 19 books on wine ambassador of the Accademia del Barolo page views n Wojciech Bońkowski n Paulo Brammer including a biography of Penfolds Grange and an ambassador for the Ordre des 38% Morris Steven Photographs: n Aldo Graziani n Alejandro Iglesias n Göran creator Max Schubert. 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