Andrew Jefford
Andrew Jefford (født 1956) er en engelsk journalist, arbeider i radio og som forfatter av bøker - hovedsakelig om vin.
Han jobbet som redaktør med Paul Hamlyns Octopus Group, og med pasjon for vin og skriving, var veien kort til å skrive artikler og bøker om vin. Han jobber nå som freelancejournalist. Han var i perioden 1992-2002 vinskribent for London Evening Standard, som er kveldsavisen for området rundt London. I tillegg har han av og til matprogram på BBC Radio 4 og skriver annenhver måned en spalte for magasinet Decanter. Han er også skrivende redaktør for magasinet The World of Fine Wine.
Åtte ganger er han tildelt Glenfiddich-utmerkelser (Glenfiddich Food and Drink Awards), og har to ganger blitt utnevnt til British Beer Writer of the Year, og i 2001 Communicator of the Year av International Wine and Spirit Competition.
Fjernsyn
På TV har han jobbet som hjelper til TV-kokken, og har rapportert om whisky for Food File (Channel Four, 1996) og SCAM (Carlton Television, 2003)
Bibliografi, utvalg
- Port, An Essential Guide to the Classic Drink (Exeter Books and Merehurst, 1988)
- Which? Wine Guide 1991 (Consumers' Association, 1990)
- The Magic of Champagne (St Martin's Press, 1991) ISBN 0-312-09865-0
- The Wines of Germany (Mitchell Beazley, 1994)
- The Evening Standard Wine Guide 1996 (Pavilion, 1995)
- The Evening Standard Wine Guide 1997 (Evening Standard Books, 1996)
- Smokes (Evening Standard Books, 1997)
- One Hundred and One Things You Need to Know About Wine (Simon & Schuster UK, 1998) ISBN 0-7432-0509-X
- Wine Tastes Wine Styles (Ryland Peters & Small, 2000) ISBN 1-84172-050-X
- The New France: A Complete Guide to Contemporary French Wine (2002) ISBN 1-84000-410-X
- After-Dinner Drinks: Discovering, Exploring, Enjoying (Ryland Peters & Small, 2003) ISBN 1-84172-508-0
- Choosing Wine (Ryland Peters & Small, 2003) ISBN 1-84172-510-2
- Peat Smoke and Spirit: A Portrait of Islay and its Whiskies (Headline Books, 2005) ISBN 0-7472-4578-9
- Wege zum Wein: Geschmack, Stil, Genuss (Hallwag, Bern & Munich, 2000, oversettelse av Wine Tastes Wine Styles, 2000)
- Weinlandschaft Frankreich (Gräfe & Unzer, 2003, oversettelse av The New France)
Priser og utmerkelser
- Bunch Award for Wine Journalism 1994
- Glenfiddich Award 1995 Drink Writer of the Year
- Glenfiddich Award 1995 Whisky Writer of the Year
- Wine Guild of Great Britain 1995 (Premier Award)
- British Guild of Beer Writers 1995 Beer Writer of the Year
- Sony Bronze Award 1996 (for BBC Liquid Companion)
- Glenfiddich Award 1997 Wine Writer of the Year
- Lanson Award 1999 (Broadcast Media, for BBC Food Programme)
- British Guild of Beer Writers 1999 Beer Writer of the Year
- Glenfiddich Award 2000 Drink Writer of the Year
- Lanson Award 2000 (Broadcast Media, for BBC Food Programme and Nature's Alchemists)
- International Wine and Spirit Competition 2001 Communicator of the Year
- Glenfiddich Award 2001 Radio Broadcast of the Year (for BBC Food Programme on cork)
- Glenfiddich Award 2002 Wine Writer of the Year
- Lanson Award 2002 (Broadcast Media, for BBC Liquid Companion)
- Lanson Award 2003 (Wine Book of the Year, for The New France)
- APA Magazine Awards 2003 (Journalist of the Year)
- Glenfiddich Award 2003 Drink Writer of the Year
- Glenfiddich Award 2003 Wine Writer of the Year
- Glenfiddich Award 2003 Glenfiddich Trophy
- Veuve Clicquot USA Award 2003 (Wine Book of the Year, for The New France)
- André Simon Award 2003 (for The New France)
- Symington Family Port Award 2003
- World Food Media Award 2005 (Best Drink Journalist)
- Louis Roederer Champagne International Wine Writer of the Year 2006
- ATOP Travel Writer of the Year 2006
- Louis Roederer Champagne International Wine Writer of the Year 2007
Sitater
- "There are many occasions in life when a lower-scoring wine is preferable to a higher-scoring one." - Andrew Jefford
- "If God does exist, sexual reproduction is proof that He or She has a sense of humour."[1] - Andrew Jefford
- "Wine is appreciated aesthetically, not politically: beauty, and not power, is the goal." - Andrew Jefford
- "Homo sapiens might now be regarded as a plague species."[1] - Andrew Jefford
