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The moment he was handed a glass of Cockburn 1908 vintage port by his grandfather at 13 years old, Steven Spurrier knew he would make wine his career. He travelled Europe in his red sports car (fitted with a compact wine fridge in the boot), working the vintage in Burgundy, Bordeaux and Champagne, before his first extraordinary move was to set up shop and sell wine to the French. As an Englishman in the heart of Paris, this seemed a remarkably bold (if not foolish) project, but the plan worked.
Steven's adventures in wine did not stop there. In 1976, he went on to mastermind the 'Judgement of Paris', the France v California blind tasting that changed the wine world forever.
This memoir looks back on Steven's life charting the incidents, adventures, ideas and discoveries that formed his wine journey. With tributes from Hugh Johnson, Miguel Torres, Oz Clarke, Jancis Robinson MW, Warren Winiarski and many more...
Contents
Early Days and Learning the Trade,
Living the Trade,
Swinging London,
Var from the Madding Crowd,
Bonjour Paris,
Steven Spurrier, Marchand du Vin,
The Judgement of Paris,
Here, There and Everywhere,
A New Decade,
Between London and Paris,
Au Revoir Paris,
The Road Back,
Life with Decanter,
Free as a Bird,
Poacher Turns Gamekeeper,
Wine People,
Wine Words,
Wine and Art
