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Richard Mayson is the Regional Chair for Port & Madeira on the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) 2023.
Richard Mayson
Richard Mayson’s curiosity in wine began at College when he accomplished a dissertation on the micro-climate of the vineyards of the Douro. He started his profession working for The Wine Society, successful the Vintner’s Firm Scholarship in 1987 throughout his time there.
Now specialising within the wines of Iberia, particularly fortified wines, till 2017 he owned a winery within the Alto Alentejo, Portugal. The writer of 5 books, together with Madeira: The Islands and their Wines, and Port and the Douro, Mayson additionally writes commonly for Decanter, contributes to The Oxford Companion to Wine and lectures for Leiths Faculty of Meals and Wine in London.
In 1999, he was made a Cavaleiro of the Confraria do Vinho do Porto in recognition of his companies to the Port wine commerce. He’s presently collection editor for the Infinite Concepts Basic Wine Library and writes at www.richardmayson.com.
He’s additionally Professional-Chancellor of the College of Sheffield.
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