everything you are likely to need/want to know - in brief

in print, online, the palate, awards, public appearances, pictures, the Harpers interview

in print
Robert Joseph is editor at large of  Meininger's Wine Business International, a publication he helped to launch in 2006. Between 1983 and 2005, he was editor, then publishing editor, of  Wine International Magazine. His work has appeared in many newspapers, including the Guardian (for which he wrote a major recent piece on global warming) and the London Daily Telegraph, and until May 2001, he was, for 16 years wine correspondent of the London Sunday Telegraph. He is an occasional contributor to Food & Wine Magazine in the US and other leading publications such as  Decanter, Sommelier in India, Cuisine in New Zealand and Magnum in Russia.

Robert is author of over 27 books on wine, including The Wine Lists, The Art of the Wine Label, The White Wines of France, The Wines of the Americas, The Essential Guide to Wine, The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Wine, the K.I.S.S. Guide to Wine, and the annual Robert Joseph Good Wine Guide which was named "the Best Wine Guide in the World" in the 2002 Cointreau Gourmand Book Awards. His recent best-selling French Wines has been translated into French, Italian, Dutch, German, Chinese and Japanese and is to be published in Russian. His book Bordeaux and its Wines was published in English, French, German and Danish in 2003, and his latest book, the Wine Travel Guide to the World was translated into Russian in 2007. He is currently writing a book covering the history and future of wine and a general introduction to wine, special editions of which will be published in Chinese, Russian and Japanese in 2009. 

online
Robert Joseph can be found online at www.robertjoseph-onwine.com and his blog is The Joseph Report. His www.corkwatch.com site devoted to providing clarity in the debate over corks and screwcaps was widely praised for the influence it has had among wine producers and drinkers. He is currently working on an online wine course.

the palate
As a wine taster, Robert Joseph has visited wine regions across the globe from Austria and Australia to Uruguay and Zimbabwe. He is one of the select group of members to be invited to join le Grand Jury Européen, and has been asked to judge and/or chair wines at competitions in France, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the USA. Since 1984, he has chaired over 50 wine competitions across the globe. Foremost among these is the International Wine Challenge, the event Jancis Robinson described as "the Oscars of the Wine World", and now the world’s largest competition, with over 9,400 entries. Robert Joseph retired from co-chairing the London International Wine Challenge in 2005, but continues to chair the Wine Challenge competitions he began to run in Asia in 1997. These are also the leading events of their kind in the region and have taken place in Hong Kong, Russia, Singapore, Bangkok, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Vietnam, Poland and India.  The next competitions Robert Joseph will chair will be the Tri Nations in Sydney (in September 2008) and the India Wine Challenge in London and Delhi (in November 2008)

awards
Decanter magazine named Robert Joseph as one of the 50 people who were most likely to influence the way people would be drinking in the 21st century and the Independent Newspaper named him as "one of the 10 leading people in the wine trade chosen by their peers". He is winner of the inaugural World Food Media Awards Jacob's Creek "Golden Vine" (for his efforts in increasing the appreciation of wine throughout the world) and other awards include. Among the awards he has won for wine writing are the Glenfiddich (twice), The Wine Guild of the United Kingdom Premier Award and the Marques de Caceres and his Robert Joseph Good Wine Guide was named the best wine guide in the world by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. He is a Chevalier de Tastevin and a member of the Commanderie du Bontemps du Médoc et des Graves in Bordeaux.

public appearances
Robert Joseph regularly appears on television and radio in the UK and overseas. As a public speaker, he has given informative and irreverent presentations to a wide range of audiences. On the one hand, these have included consumers attending events like the House & Garden, Vive la France, BBC Good Food and the Wine Show exhibitions in the UK and numerous similar events overseas. On the other, in recognition of his understanding of the way in which the wine business operates globally, he has also been invited to address members of the industry in the US, Canada, South Africa, Australia New Zealand, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. In particular, he was keynote speaker at the Australian Wine Industry 2000 Global Marketing Conference and the first Viognier and Shiraz Symposiums and has addressed meetings organised in the US by the Wine Institute of California and in France by the Insitut National des Appellations d'Origine Controlee and Wine Evolution. Audiences at other events have included customers and/or staff of the Royal Bank of Canada, Richemont IBM, Starbucks, Shepherd Neame, The Claret Club, Towry Law, Credit Suisse, Macquarie Equities, Royal Bank of Scotland and Deutsche Bank. He is a regular speaker at events run by the Claret Club and Taste-In. He will be a major presenter at the Wine Show in London in October, the BBC Good Food Show in Birmingham UK and IFE Delhi in November.

Unlike almost any other wine authority, Robert Joseph tailors his presentations very precisely to his audiences, offering a tasting of Brazilian and Indian wines to delegates to a conference on emerging markets, for example, and exploring the link between personality and wine preferences for a major head-hunting specialist.

pictures

The following pictures are all available for royalty-free download and use - provided that the photographer is credited in every case.

credit: Abbie Trayler-Smith	credit: Abbie Trayler-Smith	credit: Jaap Scholten