Edmund Penning-Rowsell

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Edmund Lionel Penning-Rowsell (1913-2002) was the doyen of Britain's writers on wine^[1] . His education at Marlborough was cut short by the collapse his father's printing business.

His interest in wine was stimulated by a wedding gift in 1937 of membership of the Wine Society; and he later became the Society's longest-serving chairman (from 1964 to 1987). Aided by those in the trade he gradually built up his knowledge and wine came to dominate his life.

In 1954 he started writing a column on wine for Country Life, the first of many such enterprises. His speciality was the wines of Bordeaux, where his expertise was recognised, and which provided the subject of his magnum opus The Wines of Bordeaux. Working with Michael Broadbent he became an adviser on wine to auctioneers Christie's.

[edit] See also

• List of wine personalities

[edit] References

1. ^ Robinson, Jancis (2006). The Oxford Companion to Wine, third edition. Oxford University Press, 105. ISBN 0-19-860990-6.. 

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography