Edmund Penning-Rowsell

Edmund Lionel Penning-Rowsell (1913-2002) was the doyen of Britain's writers on winecite book
last = Robinson
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authorlink = Jancis Robinson
title = The Oxford Companion to Wine, third edition
publisher = Oxford University Press
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His interest in wine was stimulated by a wedding gift in 1937 of membership of the Wine Society; and he later became the Society's longest-serving chairman (from 1964 to 1987). Aided by those in the trade he gradually built up his knowledge and wine came to dominate his life. [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020307/ai_n12596265 Obituary, The Independent Newspaper] ]

In 1954 he started writing a column on wine for Country Life, the first of many such enterprises. His speciality was the wines of Bordeaux, where his expertise was recognised, and which provided the subject of his magnum opus "The Wines of Bordeaux". Working with Michael Broadbent he became an adviser on wine to auctioneers Christie's.

See also

*List of wine personalities

References

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography