Young Wine Writer Award

This year’s winner of the Young Wine Writer of the Year award is Nicola Cornelius for her entry From Backpacking Cellar-hands to Flying Winemakers: The Sunny Side of Globalisation. Nicola, who has worked at Liberty Wines since 2008, wins a £1000 cheque presented by Pavilion Books and, courtesy of Wine Australia, a two-week trip of a lifetime to the wine regions of Australia, plus an engraved glass decanter. She also becomes a member of the Circle, free of charge, for a year.

   
 
For more details:

• Fiona Holman Commissioning Editor (Wine), fholman@anovabooks.com 
• Jane Ellis Head of Publicity and Marketing, jellis@anovabooks.com 

• Lisa McGovern, Wine Australia  
  Tel: ++ 44 (0) 207 887 5259
  e-mail: lisa.mcgovern@wineaustralia.com

About the award

Now in its ninth year, the award was started by Webster’s International Publishers in 2001 that sponsored it for the first six years. Pavilion Books – the publishers of Oz Clarke and Michael Broadbent – have now taken over the sponsorship.

Fiona Holman of Pavilion Books said:
“This award aims to encourage new writing talent within the world of wine and to provide a real opportunity for some inspiring travel around vineyards and wineries across the globe. We are looking for wine writing potential rather than extensive knowledge or experience.”

The Circle of Wine Writers is pleased to offer this annual award, to help develop promising young wine writers. The award is open to anyone aged 30 or under by the end of 2008 who is based in the UK. Applicants should not yet have had a wine book published nor yet be an established wine columnist or regular contributor to a magazine. We are looking for wine writing potential and commitment to popular consumer wine-writing rather than extensive knowledge or experience.

The award currently enjoys two major prizes. The first prize is a cheque for £1,000, sponsored by Pavilion Books to enable the winner to travel to a wine region of his or her choice to gain firsthand experience and to develop a book or article based on that experience. The second prize is a 14-day trip all expenses-paid to the wine regions of Australia courtesy of Wine Australia and Qantas. The trip will include a tour of the key winegrowing areas, opportunities to meet the growers themselves and one-on-one tastings with leading producers. You will also get the chance to write articles about the trip for the Wine Australia website. (Terms and conditions apply)

Previous winners

Young Wine Writer Winner 2008 »
Young Wine Writer Winner 2007 »
Young Wine Writer Winner 2006 »