Denis Gastin:  Wine Writer

           
Denis 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 Asian industry as well as about Australian and other Southern Hemisphere 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.australiawine.jp.  Over the past decade he has been a contributor to various other journals and wine reference books – including:

The Oxford Companion to Wine (edited by Jancis Robinson)

The World Atlas of Wine (edited by Jancis Robinson & Hugh Johnson)

Wine Companion (Hugh Johnson)

Pocket Wine Guide (Hugh Johnson)

Wine Report (Tom Stevenson)

Denis is a former Editorial Consultant and columnist with Australia's national daily newspaper, The Australian, and with Business Asia. While living in Japan he wrote a column on international economic affairs for the national daily business newspaper, the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun.

Last Updated November 2006                                                                                                                                   A.B.N: 69 539 702 331