Wine trade pays tribute to Steven Spurrier 10th March, 2021 by Lucy Shaw
Tributes have been pouring in from around the world for wine trade luminary Steven Spurrier, who died at his home in Dorset yesterday aged 79.
Steven Spurrier photographed at his Bride Valley vineyard in Dorset
A much admired and hugely liked figure in the wine trade, Spurrier began his career as a wine merchant in Paris, and went on to become a successful wine writer, educator, and most recently winemaker at Bride Valley in Dorset.
Spurrier famously organised The Judgment of Paris tasting 1976, when California wines unexpectedly trumped top French labels in a now legendary blind tasting that helped to put wines from the Golden State on the map.