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Michèle Shah is an export consultant, and a wine critic based in Italy for over 30 years. Since 2002 she has been consulting to the Italian wine trade, organizing tasting events and workshops held at Italian trade events, such as Vinitaly, and more recently Winett Taste & Trade, aimed at presenting Italian wines and their producing regions to international wine importers and buyers. For over ten years Michèle Shah has been organizing on behalf of the regional consorzio’s, wine tastings, seminars and educationals on Italian wine and its regions of production for international press and international wine buyers.
On this website you will find an update of Michèle Shah’s activities, travels and working experience:
She has written for winespectator.com, decanter.com, wine-business-international.com, sanpellegrino.com and monthly columns for winenews.it as well as feature articles written for specialist papers and magazines, including: Wine Busines International,Wine Spectator, Decanter, Corriere Vinicolo , Sommelier India, Wine & Spirit, ONL, Wine International, Harpers, Wine & Spirit International, Vini, San Pellegrino, Slowfood, Bibenda, Wino Magazyn (Poland) and Der Feinschmecker - Wein Gourmet and most recently Sommelier India, Le Connoisseur - Fine wine in Porto Rico, Czas Wina and Oberoi Group Magazine-Asia.
International Wine Competition Judging:
• Decanter World Wine Awards – Italy panel since they started in 2002
• International Wine Challenge 2002- Italy panel
• International Wine & Spirit Competition since 2000 - Italy panel
• Mundus Vini - Italy panel 2009
• Other wine competitions include Czech Republic, various Italy regional competitions, including Lions International
Publications
2006 Mitchell Beazley - ’Wines of Italy’ under my authorship. This is a pocket guide to Italian wines divided by region, including a regional introduction, the appellations, the wines, local foods and other useful information such as vintages, hotels and restaurants.
2008 Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Guide 2008’. Collaboration with the ’Full-Colour Italian Supplement’.
2007/2008 Veronelli Editore Veronelli ’Gli Spumanti D’Italia’. Collaboration with the new guide to Italy’s sparkling wines.
Michèle Shah is a member of Donne del Vino in Italy, The Circle of Wine Writers in UK and the international journalist association FIJEV’
Michèle Shah was awarded best international journalist award 2009 by Grandi Cru d’Italia committee at Vinitaly, April 2009 and nominated for the same award in 2010
Every few weeks the website will be updated to include new recommendations on a choice of wines, restaurants, hotels and wine events. For further details, please contact micheleshah@gmail.com
Please note that this website is completely independent. Any mention or recommendation is purely through personal choice for reasons of merit and interest. All articles and photographs are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without prior permission. Copyright © 2010 Michèle Shah
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