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George M. Taber - visit georgemtaber.com

George M. Taber is the founder of Travel4Wine and brings to this website a passion for and long history of appreciating wine and visiting many of the world's great wineries.

Taber has written three books about wines. His first book was Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the historic 1976 Paris Tasting that revolutionized wine. It was published in 2005. Taber was the only reporter present at the 1976 event in Paris that put California wines on the map when a group of French judges in a blind tasting picked California wines to win both the red and white categories over the best France had to offer. The book was the basis for the 2008 movie Bottle Shock.

In 2007, Taber wrote To Cork or Not to Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle. This dealt with the most controversial topic among wine producers the world over: how to seal a bottle of wine. Without taking a position himself, Taber told in fascinating detail the histories of various closures and the pluses and minuses of each type. The highly acclaimed book won the Jane Grigson Award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals and was a finalist for the best wine book of the year of 2007 by both the James Beard Awards in the U.S. and the André Simon Awards in Britain.

Taber's newest book is In Search of Bacchus: Wanderings in the Wonderful World of Wine Tourism. He visited twelve of the world's leading regions for wine travel and recounts the stories of their history and the people developing tourism there. The regions: Napa Valley, California; Stellenbosch, South Africa; Mendoza, Argentina; Colchagua, Chile; Margaret River, Australia; Central Otago, New Zealand; Rioja, Spain; Douro Valley, Portugal; Tuscany, Italy; Bordeaux, France; Rhine/Mosel, Germany; and Kakheti, Georgia.

Taber was a journalist specializing in financial news for 40 years before publishing his first book. He worked for 21 years for Time magazine, where he was national economic correspondent in Washington, D.C. and then business editor. In 1988, he left Time to start a weekly business newspaper in New Jersey, NJBIZ, which he sold in 2005. He has since been writing about wine.

A Californian by birth, Taber graduated from Georgetown University and got a masters degree from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. He now writes and enjoys wine on two islands: Block Island, Rhode Island and Orchid Island, Florida.