Wine & Spirit
| Editor | David Williams[1] |
|---|---|
| Categories | Wine magazines |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | William Reed Business Media Ltd |
| First issue | February 2006 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Wine & Spirit is a British monthly magazine on wine, spirits, beers and cocktails, directed at both consumers and the drinks industry. The magazine also organises the annual "International Wine Challenge" and "International Spirits Challenge", and publishes the annual results book, the World's Best Wines Guide.
Wine & Spirit is viewed as a competitor of Decanter, described by Jancis Robinson as "Britain's second consumer wine magazine", though livelier.[2]
History
The magazine was a consumer-only oriented magazine founded as What Wine? in 1983 by Robert Joseph and Charles Metcalfe and published by Wilmington plc.[1] It was later renamed Wine Magazine, then Wine International, before it was sold with its sister trade-only publication Wine & Spirit (a 150-year-old trade publication where Jancis Robinson began her wine writing career as editor immediately after university) to William Reed Publishing in December 2005.[3] The two magazines were combined into one, Wine & Spirit International, in February 2006.[3][4]
See also
References
- ^ a b William Reed Business Media Ltd. "Wine & Spirit".
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ Robinson, Jancis, jancisrobinson.com. "publications and websites".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Robinson, Jancis, jancisrobinson.com (December 9, 2005). "A new wine magazine for Britain, and one less in German".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Harpers (September 16, 2005). "Wine Int, Wine & Spirit Int and DI all move to William Reed".