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Steven Spurrier: The gentleman explorer

Steven Spurrier: The gentleman explorer
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London Book Fair Announces Details of Its Digital Seminars

London Book Fair Announces Details of Its Digital Seminars
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In Vino Veritas: Timely highlights of wine writing make a literary buffet on which to feast

Wine tasting advice, wine awards and wine related events

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Steven Spurrier, 'unsung hero of wine' who organised the world-shaking Judgment of Paris tasting – obituary

Spurrier (in Berry Bros cellar, 2006): modest, generous and enthusiastic
Credit: CLARE KENDALL
Steven Spurrier, who has died aged 79, was a debonair wine merchant and critic who was responsible for organising perhaps the most famous event in the history of wine when in May 1976 he brought together nine of France’s most eminent wine tasters and got them to blind-taste and rate a selection of French and Californian wines.
The tasting, which became known as the “Judgment of Paris”, pitted four grand and premier cru white burgundies against six Californian chardonnays, and four first and second growth bordeaux against six Californian cabernets. The French, naturally, assumed there could only be one outcome. Indeed Spurrier himself had, he wrote, “rigged the whole thing for the French to win. You don’t take half a dozen unknown Californian wines and put them up against the very best of French wine.”

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RIP Steven Spurrier: Losing a Gentleman of the Wine World : Vinography

RIP Steven Spurrier: Losing a Gentleman of the Wine World
This morning the Academie du Vin Library issued a press release announcing the death of an icon in the wine world:
Steven Spurrier died, earlier today. He was at home, at Bride Valley, surrounded by family. Steven was a pioneer in wine – a visionary who never lost his passion for new projects, new discoveries and the world of wine. 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. His enthusiasm and love of wine will live on through Bride Valley, the Académie du Vin Library, the relaunched Académie du Vin in Canada and through the work of the many wine makers, wine writers and wine educators he championed.

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Wine world legend Steven Spurrier, 1941-2021

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 has been vast, yet he will forever be associated with the famous Judgement of Paris tasting in 1976.

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Steven Spurrier, the Brit who got California wines to be taken seriously, dies at 79

Steven Spurrier, the Brit who got California wines to be taken seriously, dies at 79
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Steven Spurrier in the Halls of Congress in 2016, on the 40th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris tasting.Lucy PopeShow MoreShow Less
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Steven Spurrier in the Halls of Congress in 2016, on the 40th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris tasting.Lucy PopeShow MoreShow Less
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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 British wine merchant was running a shop in Paris that specialized in the great wines of France — Burgundy, Bordeaux — when he visited Napa Valley, at the time considered a podunk farming town.

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Timely highlights of wine writing make a literary buffet on which to feast

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 doubts and fears,” as Macbeth once complained, we need an antidote, and rummaging around in this anthology of wine writing is a good one; it’s a set of keys to open the windows and let some sun shine in again.

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Through a Glass Darkly | History Today

Through a Glass Darkly | History Today
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Timely highlights of wine writing make a literary buffet on which to feast

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 doubts and fears,” as Macbeth once complained, we need an antidote, and rummaging around in this anthology of wine writing is a good one; it’s a set of keys to open the windows and let some sun shine in again.

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