Edmund Penning-Rowsell
Edmund Lionel Penning-Rowsell (1913–2002) was a British journalist considered the doyen of Britain's writers on wine,[1][2] and possibly the world's longest-serving wine correspondent.[3]
Biography
Rowsell came from an upper middle class London family. Canon Thomas Rowsell was his second great uncle by blood and the architect Sir Charles Barry was his second great uncle through marriage. During the Depression years, his father's printing business went bankrupt, his education at Marlborough was cut short.[2] He joined The Morning Post of London in 1930,[3] and in 1935 he moved into publishing.[2]
His interest in wine was stimulated by a wedding gift in 1937 of membership of the
In 1954, he started writing a column about wine for Country Life, the first of many such enterprises. For 23 years, he was a wine columnist for Financial Times,[2] and also wrote wine articles for Marxism Today.[3] His speciality was the wines of Bordeaux, where his expertise was recognised, and which provided the subject of his magnum opus The Wines of Bordeaux, considered a masterpiece of research.[5]
Michael Broadbent noted that Penning-Rowsell had one of the best private wine collections in England.[6] Working with Broadbent, he became an adviser on wine to auctioneers Christie's, and regularly reported on wine auction results.
Penning-Rowsell was awarded by the French government the
Bibliography
- Red, White and Rosé (1967)
- The Wines of Bordeaux (1969)
- Château Latour: The History of a Great Vineyard 1331-1992 (1993)
See also
- List of wine personalities
References
- ISBN 0-19-860990-6.
- ^ a b c d e Prial, Frank J., The New York Times (13 March 2002). "Man of the Left Who Put Wines to Right". The New York Times.
{{cite news}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ ]
- ^ a b winepros.com.au. The Oxford Companion to Wine. "Penning-Rowsell, Edmund". Archived from the original on 20 August 2008.
- ^ winepros.com.au. The Oxford Companion to Wine. "literature of wine". Archived from the original on 27 July 2008.
- ^ )