Will Lyons is a British business correspondent and wine columnist formerly writing for Scotland on Sunday. Since November 2009 he has a weekly wine column with The Wall Street Journal Europe,[1] following the departure of Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher, and was in April 2010 joined by Lettie Teague and Jay McInerney. Lyons also writes a wine column for Reader's Digest, and is wine editor for The Spectator Business.[1]
Before journalism, Lyons has worked as a wine merchant for Justerini & Brooks and Lea & Sandeman in London. He has previously acted as president of the Edinburgh University Wine Society.[2]
Lyons won the 2008 Louis Roederer Writers Awards' Regional Wine Writer,[3] and was a runner-up for the award in 2006 and 2009.[1] In 2008 and 2009, he was one of the shortlist for the Scottish Press Awards' Financial Business Journalist [4].[5]