 Denis Gastin Wine WriterDenis Gastin grew up in Australia's northeast Victorian wine regions and has had a lifelong interest in wine. Assignments as an Australian trade official in China and Japan opened up new wine vistas for him and, after leaving the government, he has written extensively about the Asia wine industry, as well as about Australian wine and other wine topics. His particular interest is the more unusual aspects of winemaking, the more remote and least understood regions of the wine world and the groundbreaking work that some of the industry champions have been doing with exotic grape varieties and new wine styles. He is a feature writer and Australian Correspondent for Japan's liquor industry newspaper, The Shuhan News. He contributes a bi-monthly column to Wine Review, Korea's leading wine magazine. He contributes a column to the official Australia Wine Japanese language website: www.wineaustralia.com/japan In Australia, Denis is a member of the Editorial Panel for Wine Titles Co, the publisher of Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker Magazine, and is also a contributor of articles to this magazine. He is the wine columnist for Universal Publications (Sydney Living, Melbourne Living, West Coast Living, Luxury Home Design). He is also an occasional contributor to Wine Selector and Australia-China Connections. He is a regular member of wine judging panels for Winestate magazine. Over the past decade he has been a contributor to many journals and to some of the worlds most authoritative wine reference books, including: • The Oxford Companion to Wine • The World Atlas of Wine • Wine Report He teaches at the Academy of Wine In Korea and each year conducts many wine eduction programs for the wine trade in various countries in Asia. He has been a senior judge at the Korean Wine Challenge and at the Japan Wine Show since their inception. He was a judge at the inaugural Asian Wine Competition in Yangling, China, in 2006. |
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