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    Oz Clarke is one of the world’s leading wine experts, whose formidable reputation is based on his extensive wine knowledge and accessible, no-nonsense approach. His passion for the subject dates from his student days at Oxford University, where he won tasting competitions at a precociously early age.

    Since then his tasting skills have won him an international reputation and he is acknowledged as having one of the finest palates of anyone writing about wine today. He brings a refreshingly unorthodox wit and directness to the subject and has won all the major wine writing awards both in the UK and the USA, including the Glenfiddich (three times), André Simon, Louis Roederer, Wine Guild (three times), James Beard, Julia Child, World Food Media and Lanson (five times) awards; in 1999 he won the Lanson Special Millennium Award for his outstanding contribution to wine communication and education; in 2001 he was the keynote speaker at the Boston Wine Expo, the world’s largest consumer wine event, and he has been the keynote speaker at both the Wine Experience in New York and the California Wine Experience in San Francisco, where he was voted best keynote speaker by those attending. In 2006 he won the prestigious International Wine & Spirit Competition International Drinks Communicator of the Year Award and in 2009 Oz won the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers’ Award for International Wine Book of the Year for his book on Bordeaux. Oz’s current best selling books include The History of Wine in 100 Bottles, Bordeaux, Grapes & Wines (with Margaret Rand), World of Wine and Wine by the Glass.

    Oz’s frequent BBC TV and radio appearances are broadcast around the world. Oz’s third BBC TV series with ‘Top Gear’ co-presenter James May was ‘Oz and James Drink to Britain’ – a rollicking caravan adventure around the British Isles exploring beers, cider, whisky, wine and more.
For this series and the accompanying book Oz and James were awarded the International Wine Challenge Personality of the Year
Award, the TRIC (Television and Radio Industries Club) TV Arts/Documentary Programme of the Year Award and the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best Wine Literature. Oz has been created an Officier de l’Ordre du Mérite Agricole by the French government for services to French agriculture.

    Before wine took over his life in 1984, Oz was a full-time actor and singer, appearing in West End hit shows such as ‘Evita’, ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘The Mitford Girls’, and touring with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Oz is also sports mad and supports Gillingham Football Club, near his childhood home in Kent.

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Oz Clarke, Wine Writer (United Kingdom)  had a tasting of  9 Wines  from  9 Producers 

Lyrarakis Dafni 2015 / If you’re the type who wants to cuddle down to something reliable and predictable this Christmas – look away now. Because my budget white is a wild, wild wine with flavours stolen from swirling breezes among the rosemary bushes and pine trees scattered across the hills of Crete. Deep, soft, scented, and truly dry in the modern Greek tradition – if this won’t bring back midsummer memories in the depths of winter – nothing will. And anyway – who could resist a wine called Daphne?

1y 11m ago

Oz Clarke, Wine Writer (United Kingdom)  had a tasting of  14 Wines  from  13 Producers 

Contino Rioja Reserva 2011 /  Contino is a fabulous operation. Rioja has until recently always been about blending various batches of wines together. Contino was the first ever single vineyard wine made at its own estate winery, and it is still one of the best Riojas you can get. It’s so utterly smooth and easy to drink, yet it has a fascinating, ever-changing flavour of cranberries, raspberries, blueberries and spice that keeps you enthralled to the last drop.

2y 6m ago

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