Denis Gastin: Wine Writer
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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