The British wine author Tom Stevenson (*1951) is considered one of the best specialist authors, who is attested to shine in his non-fiction books with "clear, sparkling prose". His first contributions were published in the wine journals
Decanter and
Wine & Spirit International in the 1970s, and even then he was particularly interested in champagne and sparkling wines. He wrote more than 20 books, which have been translated into 25 languages. The work "Champagne", published in 1965, was the first wine book to receive four literary awards. The "
Christie's World Encyclopedia of Champagne & Sparkling Wine" published in 1998 with a foreword by Michael
Broadbent is one of the best ten wine books ever. In it, sparkling wine producers from all over the world and their products are evaluated with a
100-point system. What is unusual is that the entire scale of 100 points is used (usually starting at 50).
In addition to his undisputed top rank as a Champagne expert, he is also considered the world's best specialist for Alsace. He wrote the 600-page work "The Wines of Alsace" about this in 1994. In 1987 he became an honorary member of the brotherhood "Confrérie Saint-Étienne d'Alsace", because he was the only one among experts to succeed in identifying a 50-year-old Alsatian wine as Sylvaner. Worth mentioning is the work "The
Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia", which is considered compulsory reading for
Masters of Wine, as author, as well as his collaboration in the "Wine Report" published by Jancis
Robinson. Stevenson has received over 30 literary awards, including the Wine Literary Award and three Wine Writer of the Year awards. He is also a regular
wine critic at numerous important wine competitions in Europe and the USA.
