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 Tony Aspler
is a
leading Canadian authority on wine. He has been writing about wine for 26
years and is the author and co author of a
number of wine related books including wine primers, cookbooks and wine murder mysteries.
Tony is the creator of The
Ontario Wine Awards and co-founded a charitable foundation, Grapes for
Humanity, to raise money
through the wine community for the victims of landmines.
 Michael
Broadbent is
a UK based Master of Wine.
He is one of the most experienced lecturers and writers on wine in the
world today and has to his credit an outstanding combination of qualifications,
international honours and awards.
He is perhaps best known, internationally, as a wine auctioneer.
He started with Christies in 1966 and pioneered wine auctions all over
the world.
He has been President of The International Wine and Food Society,
Chairman of The Institute of Masters of Wine, Master of the Worshipful Company
of Distillers and Chairman of The Wine & Spirit Trades' Benevolent Society.
He is part of a three member panel who advise British Airways on the wine
they should serve on their flights.
The other panel members are Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson.
 Oz
Clarke is one of the world's leading wine experts.
He
is the author of several best selling wine books, appears regularly on the BBC's
Food and Drink program and writes for the Daily Telegraph. He has won all the major wine writing education awards in the UK
and USA and has been the keynote speaker at several major wine conferences.
 Beppi
Crosariol is the
wine columnist for the Globe & Mail. He is a long standing feature
writer for a variety of publications and has written extensively on technology
issues. His column appears in the Style section of the Globe on Saturdays.
He also authors Globe Wine & Spirits - a free weekly email newsletter sent
every Friday morning.
 Edward Finstein
a.k.a the Wine Doctor is a Toronto based wine consultant who has written
articles for many Canadian publications, acted as a judge in many competitions,
lectured at trade shows and has taught both beginner
and expert classes at George Brown College. He also can arrange
private tastings for both corporate and personal functions and provides
appraisal services on request. His book "Ask the Wine Doctor"
won an award at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in 2003.
 Hugh
Johnson is probably the
world's best known wine author. His books, The World
Atlas of Wine, first published in 1971 (and now co-published with Jancis
Robinson) and The Wine Companion, first published
1983, deserve a place in every oenophile’s collection. He has written
for countless wine publications and has won many awards for his writing in the
UK, USA and France. He has appeared in several TV series and is much in
demand as a guest speaker. Visit Mitchell
Beazley to see a complete listing of his books or Amazon.com
for North American availability.
 David
Lawrason is a leading Canadian authority on wine and has
written for wine publications
for over twenty years. David and John Szabo are currently the primary reviewers in the Wine Align team
which reviews and rates
the wines in the LCBO's bi- monthly Vintages releases.
Between 1986 and 1999,
David was the wine columnist for the Globe
and Mail and he currently writes for Toronto
Life. He has run wine education programs for the
public since 1987 and has taught in-depth sommelier courses at George Brown and
Humber colleges. He founded Wine Access,
one of Canada's leading wine magazines, and in 2001, he launched the Canadian Wine Awards presented by Air Canada.
 Natalie MacLean
provides a free newsletter and lots of useful information, via her website Nat
Decants, on what is going on in the world. She also provides some
excellent information on the general principles of food and wine matching.
She holds down day jobs as a wine
writer, speaker and judge. An accredited sommelier, she is a member of the
Ottawa Sommelier Guild, the Wine
Writers Circle of Canada and several French wine societies. In 2003,
she was named the World's Best Drink Writer at the World Food Media
Awards in Australia. There are no ads on her website and all e-mail addresses are kept
confidential. In 2006, Natalie published Red, White and Drunk
All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass. See also Online
Ordering for "buying wine' services she provides.
 Robert M. Parker Jr
is commonly
regarded as the USA's leading wine authority. His ratings are extremely
influential and are quoted world wide. He has a practical and hard headed
approach to his subject, and is particularly famous for
demystifying the "sometimes genteel and snobbish" world of wine for the American
public. He has received innumerable awards for his writing, and his books on the wines of Bordeaux, Burgundy and the Rhone Valley are regarded
as classics. His newsletter, The Wine
Advocate, comes out six times a year.
 Jancis Robinson
is
another UK based Master of Wine. She is an extremely
prolific author and is often referred to as the first lady of wine. Her book,
The Oxford Companion to Wine, has been described as the greatest wine book ever
published. Recently, she teamed up with Hugh Johnson, the doyen of English
wine writers, to publish the 5th edition of his classic World Atlas of Wine.
She has received many awards for her writing and in 1999
received Decanter magazine's award as the (wo)man of the year. She and her
husband have their own production company and have developed a variety of TV
productions on wine and other subjects.
 Gord
Stimmell was wine writer for The
Toronto Sun for
10 years and wine columnist at the Calgary
Sun and the London
Free Press.
He was also Managing Editor and Senior Editor of Wine
Access magazine.
He is currently the wine columnist at the Toronto
Star.
He currently tastes and rates up to 6,000 wines a year, both in Canada
and in foreign countries. He
frequently contributes freelance articles and photography to various Canadian
magazines. He also acts as a judge
at tastings and as an expert at wine seminars.
John Szabo is Canada's first Master Sommelier, earning the title from the Court
of Master Sommeliers in 2004. John and David Lawrason
are currently the primary reviewers in the Wine Align team
which reviews and rates
the wines in the LCBO's bi- monthly Vintages releases.
John offers a full range of wine consulting
services for restaurants, wineries and consumers. He judges at wine
competitions across the globe, is actively involved in staff training courses for the
hospitality industry and works with organizations such as the Canadian
Association of Professional Sommeliers, George Brown School of Hospitality and
Niagara College.
 Zoltan
Szabo is one of Toronto’s leading sommeliers.
He has created and oversees many award winning wine
programs for some of Toronto’s top restaurants.
He is a contributing editor for CityBites Magazine, drinks editor of
Asian Gourmet, and contributes tasting notes to a variety of sources including
WinerytoHome.com, Vines Magazine and the Ontario Restaurant News.
He also delivers training seminars with partner John Szabo and travels
the world as an international wine judge.
Margaret Swaine
is based in Toronto and is a nationally published wine, spirits, food and travel
writer. She is a regular
contributor to Toronto Life, Chatelaine,
Winetidings and Food and Drink Magazine. She
is a founder and first president of the Wine Writers Circle of
Canada, and a
long-time member of the Society of Wine Educators. She has also served as
an expert witness in several wine disputes, and participated as a wine judge in
global competitions such as at Vinitaly in Verona. Margaret
is a member of the Wine
Align reviewer team.
 Steve
Thurlow is senior editor at Wine Access, is the Education Director for the Independent Wine Educational Guild.
runs a wine school with his friend David Calado (refer to Global
Wine Tour for details) and is part of the Wine Align
team. In this capacity,
Steve publishes a monthly report which features the top fifty
wines by value available at the LCBO.
Steve is an internationally recognized wine
judge and is a member of the judging team at both the Annual Canadian Wine
Awards and at the annual Decanter World Wine Awards.
Steve established his own wine agency
in 1993. When it was incorporated into Corby Distilleries in 1999, he became
Director of Wine for Canada until April 2001.
Upon leaving Corby, Steve established his wine education and
communication business, Wine for Life. The
company is involved in the training and education of hotel and restaurant wine
staff and wine agency personnel.
 Michael Vaughan
is an
experienced wine consultant based in Toronto. With
more than two decades of journalism, teaching and wine tasting experience, he is
an internationally-accredited wine judge and was a founding director of the
Society of Wine Educators. His columns have appeared in more than two dozen
publications including Toronto Life Magazine. He is currently the wine
columnist for the National Post. His column appears every Saturday in the
Toronto section. He provides ratings on Vintage releases in his monthly
Vintage Assessments newsletter.
 Christopher
Waters is Sun Media's national wine columnist, and the
co/founder and editor of Vines.
For the past eleven years, he has worked as a professional wine writer and
educator. His column, Waters & Wine, appears weekly in Sun Media
papers across the country. In addition, Waters is head judge of the
InterVin International Wine Awards and on staff at the Cool Climate Oenology
& Viticulture Institute, Brock University, where he develops and teaches
three semester-long wine appreciation courses each year
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