Pat Simon

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Stanley Patrick Evelyn Simon (born 14 March 1920), known as Pat Simon, is a veteran English Master of Wine, wine-merchant and writer on wine.

[edit] Career

After six years at Gresham's School, Holt (1931 to 1937), and military service during the Second World War, Simon entered the wine trade in 1948, importing wines chiefly from France, Germany, Italy, and Portugal, but later also from Spain, South Africa, Australia and the United States. Going into business on his own account as an importer and wholesaler of wines (trading as Pat Simon Wines Ltd), he rose to the rank of Master of Wine of the Institute of Masters of Wine and became a frequent contributor to specialist periodicals.

Simon's book Wine-tasters' Logic (2000) distils the experiences of fifty years of wine-tasting and is also full of anecdotes. Wineanorak.com said of it "Fifty years in the wine business have equipped Pat Simon with a nose and palate of formidable finesse. His ruminations on how a taster learns to taste, how memory and appreciation are deepened, and how the intensely subjective experience of tasting wine can be communicated meaningfully, are distilled in Wine Tasters' Logic."

[edit] Publications

• Wine-tasters' Logic (Mitchell Beazley, London, 2000) ISBN 978-0571202874
• Wine-tasters' Logic (Faber & Faber Paperbacks, London, 2001) ISBN 057120287X

[edit] References

• Circle of Wine Writers (accessed 8 September 2007)
• Pat Simon Wines Ltd (accessed 8 September 2007)
• Masters of Wine (accessed 8 September 2007)
• Wine-tasters' Logic at wineanorak.com (accessed 8 September 2007)
• Old Greshamian Club Book (Cheverton & Son Ltd, Cromer, 1999)