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Steven Spurrier, the Brit who got California wines to be taken seriously, dies at 79 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Steven Spurrier in the Halls of Congress in 2016, on the 40th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris tasting.Lucy PopeShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Steven Spurrier in the Halls of Congress in 2016, on the 40th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris tasting.Lucy PopeShow MoreShow Less 3of3 Steven Spurrier, left, with French wine writer Michel Bettane in 2010.Saez VictorShow MoreShow Less Steven Spurrier, who died Tuesday morning at age 79, was an unlikely champion for California wines. In 1976,...

The Académie du Vin Library, which Spurrier cofounded, announced the news. It said in a short tribute, ‘He will always be remembered for founding the Académie du Vin, the celebrated Judgement of Paris and in recent years, the Académie du Vin Library and, together with his wife Bella, the Bride Valley Vineyard in Dorset, England – as well as much else besides. ‘He was also a hugely loved husband, father and grandfather. He will be sorely missed, not just by his immediate family and friends, but by people right across the world of wine.’ Spurrier’s contribution to the wine world ha...

Timely highlights of wine writing make a literary buffet on which to feast Brian St. Pierre reviews (Académie du Vin Library; £25) By now, in this plague year, most of us may be feeling more than a bit like the poor dupe in Edgar Allen Poe’s “A Cask of Amontillado,” walled into a wine-cellar’s alcove, maneuvered into claustrophobic isolation in an extreme of anti-social distancing, and frustrated at being unable to expansively share one of the best things ever created for expansive sharing. Denied wine’s bridge to gregariousness, “cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy d...

Timely highlights of wine writing make a literary buffet on which to feast Brian St. Pierre reviews (Académie du Vin Library; £25) By now, in this plague year, most of us may be feeling more than a bit like the poor dupe in Edgar Allen Poe’s “A Cask of Amontillado,” walled into a wine-cellar’s alcove, maneuvered into claustrophobic isolation in an extreme of anti-social distancing, and frustrated at being unable to expansively share one of the best things ever created for expansive sharing. Denied wine’s bridge to gregariousness, “cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy d...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Crack open the best 2020 wine books for rich history, international politics and a vintner's lively memoir Dave McIntyre, The Washington Post Dec. 11, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3The cover of "The Story of Wine: From Noah to Now by" Hugh Johnson.Academie du Vin Library.Show MoreShow Less 2of3The cover of "Wine and the White House: A History by Frederick J. Ryan Jr."White House Historical Association.Show MoreShow Less 3of3 Each year at this time, I recommend my favorite wine books published in the previous 12 months. In this year of coro...