Writer

Writer

Christopher has contributed to most of the leading wine magazines around the world and for more than ten years he had a regular consumers’ column in Decanter Magazine. This was described as ‘outstanding’. (Wine Snobbery, Andrew Barr.) Currently he contributes a monthly wine column to the Church Times.

In all he has written eleven books on a variety of wine related subjects, and these include:
Burgundy Vines and Wines (with John Arlott)

Alsace wines and spirits (with Pamela Vandyke Price)

Is this the Wine you Ordered, Sir? The dark side of the wine trade.
(an anti-social history of the wine-trade)

A Dynasty in Drink – the Suntory Story.

Exploring Wines and Spirits (the official wine trade text book)
“Lucid, precise and pithy.” Hugh Johnson

Traveller’s Wine Guide to France.

Traveller's Wine Guide to Germany

Traveller’s wine guide to Spain

White Burgundy, forward by John Arlott

The Wines of Argentina, Chile and Latin America.

“A chatty, highly personalised view of the Latin American scene” Tim Atkin, The Observer.
“Few wine books are published today that contain as much brand new information as this……. Christopher’s writing is wonderfully fluid and easy to read” Wink Lorch. AWE Inspiring News.
“An education for those of us who know little of these exciting New World wines” Joe Speed, Church Times.

Exploring Wines and Spirits (also available in Japanese)

His books have been translated into Dutch, Swedish, Danish, German and Japanese and also been published in the United States.

Award winner: Versailles World Cookbook Fair, 1999.

He has also contributed to such books as The Oxford Companion to Wine and the Which? Wine Guide

In preparation: Manzanilla and Sanlucar de Barrameda.