OZ CLARKE

'Oz Clarke' (1949 - )is a British wine writer and broadcaster.

Contents

Biography

Acting career

Wine career

Selected bibliography

Awards

See also

References

Biography

Oz Clarke attended Pembroke College Oxford University and captained the wine-tasting team.
He now lives in West London.

Acting career

Clarke started life as a fulltime actor and singer working for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre, The Old Vic and Chichester. In the West End, he played all the men in the Mitford Girls, Sweeny Todd and Peron in Evita.
He played Hood #4 in the 1978 film ''Superman'', a Special Branch man in ''Who Dares Wins'', and Balthasar in Stuart Burge's 1984 film of ''Much Ado About Nothing''.

Wine career

In 1984 he became a full time writer. He joined the Sunday Express, where Lynn Barber was his ghost writer.^[1] He then became wine correspondent of The Daily Telegraph.
He has also written many award-winning books (see below), but to the general public he is perhaps best known for his partnership with Jilly Goolden as the wine experts on the BBC2 ''Food and Drink'' programme.
More recently he appeared on ''Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure'' with James May and can be heard on BBC Radio 4 ''The Wine Programme'' with Andrew Jefford.

Selected bibliography

★ ''Oz Clarke's Wine Guide'' (formerly Webster's Wine Guide) - annually since the late 1980s, now also on CD-ROM

★ ''Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Book'' (annually since 1997)

★ ''Oz Clarke's New Classic Wines''

★ ''Oz Clarke's Australian Wine Companion'' (2004)

★ ''Oz Clarke's Encyclopedia of Wine'' (2003)

★ ''Oz Clarke's Wine Atlas''

★ ''Oz Clarke's Grapes and Wines: A Guide to Varieties and Flavours'' (2003) by Oz Clarke & Margaret Rand

★ ''Sainsbury's Regional Wine Guides'' and ''Sainsbury's Pocket Book of Wine''

★ ''Oz Clarke's Wine Companion to...'' - Bordeaux, Tuscany, Burgundy, California

★ Microsoft Wine Guide (CD-ROM)

Awards

★ Wine Magazine Book of the Year

★ Wine Guild of the United Kingdom Wine Writer

★ Glenfiddich Drink Award 1992

★ Andre Simon Drink Book Award

★ Julia Child Cookbook Award

★ Lanson Wine Book of the Year 2002

★ Special Millennium Award, Le Prix du Champagne Lanson

See also

★ List of wine personalities

References

★ Official website

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★ Biography at Performing Artistes, his agents.