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Wine Article of the Year |
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seeks to recognise a journalist or a group of journalists
who have written an outstanding article, which reflects
and promotes the quality, variety and depth of the wines
and wine trends around the world in the majority of its
editorial content.
The submitted article must be published in any English
print or electronic medium (magazine, newspapers) for
the first time in any of the above participating countries
between 2 December 2002 and 1 October 2003.
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Recipient
for 2004
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Water of Life
Anne Fong
Hong Kong Tatler, December 2002
(Hong Kong)
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| A Malaysian-Chinese
endowed with a vagabond spirit, she strives
to eat around the globe, revelling in each
locale’s cuisine and cultures, earning
her keeps as a food and travel journalist.
Her passion and curiosity on gastronomy
had her dunking for hairy crabs at Yang
Cheng Lake, visiting fattened geese in south-west
France, tracing the history of chocolates
in Belgium, chasing vodkas with wizened
geezers in remote countryside of Poland
and getting drunk on bubbles with the masters
at Champagne. But her heart and palate still
sing gastronomic-wonders of the local hawker-fare
found uniquely on the lusty, bustling streets
of Malaysia and Singapore. These understated,
unsung heroes deserve a pedestal and are
unrivalled in many ways – you can
take the girl out of the country but you
can’t take the country out of the
girl! Although today a contented resident
in Europe, she hopes to return to live in
the warmth of Asia one day, and that her
work continues to be an ambassador of cross-cultures
for East and West.
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California Cult Wines
Lim Hwee Peng
Wine & Dine, February 2003 (Singapore)
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won the inaugural WGS Awards of Excellence
Regional Wine Article of the Year in 2002,
Lim Hwee Peng has been working harder than
before to achieve his aspiration of setting
benchmark in the Wine & Dine
wine pages. Various wine trips around the
globe have resulted in Lim’s ability
to understand and relate the intricate dynamics
within those wine regions in his several
wine features. Of his achievement thus far,
he is grateful for the opportunities and
enlightening moment that his profession
has brought to him. The next natural progression
for Lim, still very much an avid wine lover
with a wide palate spectrum, is to be exposed
to other related areas pertinent to wine.
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Changing Faces
Edwin Soon
Wine & Dine, February 2003 (Singapore)
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Soon is a qualified oenologist from Australia's
renowned wine school, Roseworthy College,
Adelaide University. A former diplomat
and IT consultant, Edwin Soon took an
unusual route to becoming a wine connoisseur.
"One day, on a consulting project
I sent back a faulty wine that my client
had ordered and the next thing I knew
I was off the information highway and
in a seminar room, giving instruction
to wine retailers!" Edwin Soon has
worked as a winemaker in various wineries
around the world, run wine shops and is
today a wine educator for the Italian
Trade Commission, the California Wine
Institute and Sopexa (French wine marketing
board) who operate in the Asia Pacific
region. Besides visiting lectureships
that include the University of Western
Sydney's winemaking course, Edwin Soon
is a wine panel judge for various wine
and food competitions around the world.
In between his travels, Edwin Soon contributes
to the Wine and Dine magazine,
is the wine editor for Harpers Bazaar,
and writes a column for the local newspapers
on the subjects of wine, cheese, chocolate,
olive oils and restaurants.
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