Max Allen
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Max Allen is Australia's most widely-published wine writer and broadcaster. He is the wine columnist for The Weekend Australia Magazine, wine editor of Gourmet Traveller and a regular contributor to consumer and trade magazines such as Divine in Australia; WINE International magazine, Harpers and the BBC's new food and drink magazine, Olive in the UK; and Wine and Spirits in the USA.
Max also presented a regular wine segment on Australia's leading television lifestyle show, Channel 7's Better Homes and Gardens.
Max is a three-time winner at the Jacob's Creek World Food Media Awards, a two-time winner for the Food Media Club of Australia's award for wine writing, and was awarded the Wine Communicator of the Year Trophy in April 2003 by the International Wine and Spirit Competition in London. This is the first time an Australian has received this prestigious award. Max was also the recipient of the 2003 NSW Wine Press Club Fellowship - a research grant given to help with an upcoming project - a cultural and social history of alcohol in Australia.
In 1999 Max's bestselling first book Red and White: Wine Made Simple won the Andre Simon Memorial Award, one of the UK's most prestigious gongs for wine-scribbling. Again, this was the first time an Australian wine book had won the award. James Halliday, in his foreword for the book said: 'Red and White is by far the most enjoyable basic introduction to wine I have ever read or am ever likely to read. Indeed, it is one of the best books on wine of any description I have seen.'
Max's other books include the Yarra Valley Wineguide, the Food Lover's Guide to the Great Ocean Road, Crush - the New Australian Wine Book, and the annual Quaff - Best Value Wines in Australia, co-authored with Peter Forrestal. His last book, Sniff, Swirl and Slurp - how to get more pleasure out of every glass of wine was published in August 2002 by Mitchell Beazley in the UK and Hardie Grant Books in Australia.
Max has been a regular and enthusiastic - if rather sceptical - judge at various Australian wine shows including Geelong, Clare, Rutherglen, Barossa, the Sydney International Top 100, and the Strathbogie Ranges, Mornington Peninsula and Adelaide Hills wine shows. He also speaks regularly at tastings, dinners and seminars across Australia (and around the world) and runs popular wine education courses - fun, convivial affairs which have helped introduce hundreds of people to the joys of wine (and, in some cases, to the joys of each other) - and is a regular presenter at wine tastings around the world.
Max lives in Melbourne, where he occasionally gets to spend some time with his family (wife, Sophie, nine year-old daughter, Bridie, six year-old son, Riley) and his two chocolate Labradors. Max also plays mandolin in the bluegrass band, the Kneeling Drunkards.
Max also presented a regular wine segment on Australia's leading television lifestyle show, Channel 7's Better Homes and Gardens.
Max is a three-time winner at the Jacob's Creek World Food Media Awards, a two-time winner for the Food Media Club of Australia's award for wine writing, and was awarded the Wine Communicator of the Year Trophy in April 2003 by the International Wine and Spirit Competition in London. This is the first time an Australian has received this prestigious award. Max was also the recipient of the 2003 NSW Wine Press Club Fellowship - a research grant given to help with an upcoming project - a cultural and social history of alcohol in Australia.
In 1999 Max's bestselling first book Red and White: Wine Made Simple won the Andre Simon Memorial Award, one of the UK's most prestigious gongs for wine-scribbling. Again, this was the first time an Australian wine book had won the award. James Halliday, in his foreword for the book said: 'Red and White is by far the most enjoyable basic introduction to wine I have ever read or am ever likely to read. Indeed, it is one of the best books on wine of any description I have seen.'
Max's other books include the Yarra Valley Wineguide, the Food Lover's Guide to the Great Ocean Road, Crush - the New Australian Wine Book, and the annual Quaff - Best Value Wines in Australia, co-authored with Peter Forrestal. His last book, Sniff, Swirl and Slurp - how to get more pleasure out of every glass of wine was published in August 2002 by Mitchell Beazley in the UK and Hardie Grant Books in Australia.
Max has been a regular and enthusiastic - if rather sceptical - judge at various Australian wine shows including Geelong, Clare, Rutherglen, Barossa, the Sydney International Top 100, and the Strathbogie Ranges, Mornington Peninsula and Adelaide Hills wine shows. He also speaks regularly at tastings, dinners and seminars across Australia (and around the world) and runs popular wine education courses - fun, convivial affairs which have helped introduce hundreds of people to the joys of wine (and, in some cases, to the joys of each other) - and is a regular presenter at wine tastings around the world.
Max lives in Melbourne, where he occasionally gets to spend some time with his family (wife, Sophie, nine year-old daughter, Bridie, six year-old son, Riley) and his two chocolate Labradors. Max also plays mandolin in the bluegrass band, the Kneeling Drunkards.
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