http://www.microsoft.com/WineGuide/Biographies.htm (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)US consulting editor for the Microsoft Wine Guide CD-ROM, Larry is a prolific and enthusiastic writer on wine, food and travel. He is US editor of Wine & Spirit International (London), West Coast editor of Wine Enthusiast, associate editor of Wines & Vines and wine and spirits editor of Bay Food Magazine. He also contributes on a regular basis to WINE Magazine (London), Quarterly Review of Wines, Country Home, The Learning Channel Magazine and the California Visitors Review.
Larry has taught 'wine product knowledge' classes in graduate programs at the University of San Francisco McLaren School of Business, and is a member of the Bon Appetit magazine tasting panel. With his wife, Ann Walker, Larry has also found time to write five books: A Season in Spain, The Pleasures of the Canary Islands, Tequilla: the Book, Tapas, and The Best of California.
Anthony has devoted thirty years to the wine industry, spending much of his time living in Burgundy as well as elsewhere in France, Portugal and Germany. In 1991 Anthony was keynote speaker at the Pinot Noir Conference in Oregon, USA. Later that year he resigned as managing director from the UK wine merchant Haynes Hanson and Clark, which he co-founded in the late 1970s, to concentrate on writing the second edition of his book Burgundy (published by Faber and Faber in March this year). Anthony now runs his own wine consultancy - clients of which include Haynes Hanson & Clark and Paris firm Saulnier-Blache - writes on wine, and has acted as a judge at international wine shows.
Four times a nominee for the US James Beard award, food and wine guru Jeff has recently moved to Napa Valley, California, to join the Culinary Institute of America as restaurant director and cellarmaster. Jeff earlier spent ten years at Ray's Boathouse, one of Seattle's premiere seafood restaurants, during which time he put together a world-class wine program. He is a frequent judge at wine festivals around the country, and is co-author with Paul Gregutt of Northwest Wines (Sasquatch Books).
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Paul, who has a weekly wine column in the Seattle Weekly, also contributes to the Wine Spectator, Northwest Palate, and other leading wine publications. He wrote and taped over 80 episodes of The Wine Guys for KIRO-TV in 1991-92, and in 1993 co-wrote Northwest Wines with Jeff Prather. In addition to his wine-related work, Paul is also a founding partner of a new media design firm, EPG Multimedia.
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A US citizen, Burton has lived for over 20 years in Italy. In 1995 he won the James Beard Award in the United States for 'Writing on Food'. Former editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris, Burton now writes on wine, food and travel for international magazines and books. His more recent books include Vino, Burton Anderson's Guide to the Wines of Italy, The Wine Atlas of Italy, and Treasures of the Italian Table (published in the UK as Pleasures of the Italian Table).
Wine columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and past winner of the Charles Heidsieck Award for Wine Writing (among others), Huon has been involved with wine for many years. He studied wine at Roseworth Agricultural College, worked in several wineries, and in fine wine retailing, before launching on his present career as a wine writer in 1983. Huon writes regularly for Good Weekend Magazine, Northern Herald, Australian Gourmet Traveller Magazine, and occasionally for Wine Spectator and others, and still finds time to conduct wine appreciation classes. Huon wrote the biography Max Schubert - Winemaker, published in 1994, contributed to Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide and co-authored the Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide.
The second New Zealander to gain his MW, Bob is director of The Wine Gallery, an Auckland based wine school which he founded in 1990. Bob, who contributed to the Wine Guide CD-ROM, is wine editor of Cuisine Magazine, author of The New Zealand Wine Annual and writes for WINE, Wine & Spirit and Decanter Magazines in the UK. He has also contributed to The Oxford Companion to Wine, Sainsbury's Book on Wine, Great Vintage Wine Book and The New Zealand Wine Guide. Bob also judges extensively at wine shows in New Zealand and Australia, as well as France and England, and was secretary of Hawkes Bay Vintners, president of Winemakers of West Auckland and president of the Rangitoto Beefsteak and Burgundy Club.
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'South Africa's leading wine authority... one of the most persistent advocates of change in the wine country': the New York Times on John Platter, author of South Africa's best-selling wine publication, the John Platter Wine Guide. Born in Hungary, brought up in Italy and Kenya, Platter worked as a foreign correspondent in Africa, Europe and the Middle East before discovering Cape wines on an assignment to South Africa, when he began to write about them for the Rand Daily Mail. He contributes to various local and international publications, including the Oxford Companion to Wine, is the first writer on South Africa's Wine and Spirit Board, judges locally and internationally, and grows and makes Chardonnay on a small farm near Stellenbosch. He is married to South African journalist Erica Platter, who edits the guide they produce and publish.
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Stuart began writing on wine while an art student in London during the early 1980s, contributing to Decanter, House & Garden and a number of other publications. Even then, the prime focus of Stuart's interest was German wines. His first book, Life beyond Liebfraumilch (Sidgwick & Jackson), was published in 1988; shortly afterwards he moved to Germany where he still lives, now based in Berlin with his wife, wine merchant Ursula Heinzelmann. More recent publications include Die Grossen Deutschen Rieslingweine (ECON Verlag) and The Wine Atlas of Germany, written with Hugh Johnson (Mitchell Beazley, 1995). A fervent believer that wine is about pleasure rather than dogma or snobbism, Stuart continues to divide his time between painting and wine writing.
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