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9 de mar. de 2021 · 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 ...
12 de mar. de 2021 · At 22 Steven Spurrier had just started his first job in the wine trade, washing corks and bottling casks of Château Cheval Blanc 1962 in the cellars of Christopher’s, the London wine merchant ...
19 de mar. de 2021 · Spurrier died March 9 at his home in Dorset, England, at age 79. His life has been recounted in several tributes since, so I won’t repeat it here. His main fame stemmed from the middle 1970s ...
8 de mar. de 2022 · To commemorate the first anniversary of Steven Spurrier’s death, we’re republishing Susan Keevil’s personal tribute from last year. ‘A wonderful man.’ ‘Such a great optimist!’ ‘He always raised the tone at any gathering he attended.’ ‘The quintessential man of wine.’ Tributes to Steven Spurrier poured in on Tuesday 9th
Decanter’s consultant editor Steven Spurrier joined the wine trade in London in 1964 and later moved to Paris where he bought a wine shop in 1971, and then opened L’Academie du Vin, France’s first private wine school in 1973. Spurrier staged the historic 1976 blind tasting between wines from California and France, the Judgment of Paris ...
STEVEN SPURRIER. 1941 – 2021. An enquiring mind, a thoughtful, generous, dapper gentleman who loved wine and art. After a celebrated career in wine – and inspired by the chalky, south-facing slopes of his wife Bella’s Dorset sheep farm – Steven Spurrier joined the English sparkling wine revolution. He took great delight in pouring wines ...
In the world of wine Steven Spurrier needs no introduction. The man who broke the staus quo by organising the Judgement of Paris in 1976 and has been one of ...
