International Media Attendees

Margaret Rand

As a freelance writer she regularly for Decanter, World of Fine Wine and Drinks Business, as well as for Imbibe, Square Meal and the Financial Times. Margaret has edited several consumer and trade wine and spirit magazines. She is general editor of Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book, published annually, and is editor of Jasper Morris’s forthcoming book, Inside Burgundy. Her own books include Grapes & Wines (with Oz Clarke), first published in 2001 by Little Brown, and updated since. She has twice won the Lanson Award for wine writing, and won the Roederer International Wine Writer of the Year award last year. Alongside her writing she is an international wine judge. Her current project is a new book provisionally entitled Wine Classified, to be published by Anova Books.

Tom Neal Tacker

Tom Neal Tacker is a highly prolific and well regarded journalist based in Melbourne, Australia. He specialises in travel writing, but was trained at Roseworthy so knows a thing or two about wines!
He is Executive Editor of the Naked Hungry Traveller a website focusing on gourmet eating and drinking! Tom also writes for a number of well known metro newspapers such as the Age and Sydney Morning Herald.  He is a very honest and open writer and adds a sense of humour and a fresh approach to his written work.

Anthony Rose

Based in London as the wine correspondent for the Independent in England, he writes a weekly column and contributes wine news and travel articles. Anthony teaches the Leiths School of Food & Wine certificate in schools and the Wine & Spirit Education Trust intermediate certificate. He is chairman of the Decanter World Wine Awards Australia panel and of the Decanter Wine Retailer Awards panel. One of his specialist areas is wine investment on which he contributes the wine auction and investment sections in Jancis Robinson’s Oxford Companion to Wine and Tom Stevenson’s Wine Report. Anthony has been awarded the Louis Roederer International Wine Columnist of the Year 2008, Glenfiddich Wine Writer of the Year 2000 and 2005, and the Prix Lanson Black Label Award 2000.

Matt Kramer

American wine critic since 1976, who is a columnist for The Oregonian, and since 1985 a regular contributor to Wine Spectator. He has been described by Mike Steinberger as "one of the more insightful and entertaining wine writers around" and by Hugh Johnson as "an intellectual guerrilla among wine writers".

Reva Singh

Reva is a veteran of the Indian publishing industry and edited The Oberoi Group Magazine for six years prior to publishing and editing Sommelier India. Before that she was the Senior & Book Review Editor of World Affairs, The Journal of International Issues. Reva is often asked to comment on wine culture in India.

She has led or been on the editorial team of several high profile publications in India and abroad over her 25-year publishing career. These include Hong Kong Tatler, Eve Home Journal (HK), Business India, Inside Outside, Signature, What's On (Dubai) and The Emirates Inflight Magazine.

Yaoming Chen

Chen Yaoming is a wine writer who understands the subtleties of the Chinese wine market. He is a regular contributor to a number of wine publications, including Fortune Wine & Life, and is a Director of Wine Appreciation magazine. Yaoming also writes for the wine and lifestyle sections of several Chinese newspapers, including the Shenzhen Daily and the Guangzhou Daily, the 3rd largest newspaper in China and one of the largest newspaper circulations in the world). He has also written two books, one focussed on wine and the other a collection of writings on wine and fashion.

Young-Mi Kim

Young-Mi has been the Editor and Assistant Manager of 'Wine Review' Magazine for 3 years. 'Wine Review' has been the first Korean magazine to bring high quality information about wines and wine culture to Korean readers. The wine-specialist magazine, which has been in circulation for 10 years, is renowned not only in the Korean market but also overseas. Prior to that Young-Mi worked part-time as a wine waitress in a famous cafe and restaurant for several years. Young-Mi is also a regular contributor to monthly magazines; Women's DongA, Two-Chairs and Innoble.

Eva Dülligen

Eva Dülligen is a freelance journalist, writing for wine magazines Vinum (Austria) and Weinwelt (Germany), and gourmet publication Feinschmecker. Since 2005 she has been a permanent writer for the wine trade magazine Weinwirtschaft. She has also written on wine, food and travel for the Financial Times Germany, Stern and lifestyle publications that include Fit for Fun; and developed her specialist interest in wine while attending and reporting on major trade shows that included Anuga and ProWein. She has a Master’s Degree from the University of Dusseldorf in German language and literature, political science and media science.