Jane macquitty biography
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RIP PVP
29 Jan - Pamela's funeral will be held at Golders Green Crematorium at 1.30 pm today.
See Neil Fairlamb's addition below.
People often suggest that I somehow blazed a trail as a female wine writer but nothing could be further from the truth. Already established long before I came hesitantly on the scene at the end of 1975 were Jane MacQuitty (still writing for The Times) and Jilly Goolden (once star of the BBC TV programme Food & Drink). But even they were newbies compared with Joyce Rackham, Penny Drinkwater, Katie Bourke, Peta Fordham and, the grandest dame of them all, Pamela Vandyke Price.
Pamela, who died in a London nursing home last Sunday at the age of 90 after a long illness, was undoubtedly the queen of the monthly press lunches organised by importers Rutherford, Osborne & Perkin on what was then known as the Martini Terrace at the top of New Zealand House in London. (The vermouth company was in its prime and had bought this old-school family firm, Serena Sutcliffe MW's first employers in the wine trade.) In fact by the mid 1970s Pamela was already regularly described as the 'doyenne' of wine writers. I flinch every time the horrid term is applied to me, though presumably I no longer need to feel as though I am usurping PVP's positio
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Jane MacQuitty
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Jane MacQuitty grew up drinking wine cut with water, care of her Francophile parents. She has been writing about wine and drink for The Times since the early 1980s and it has been downhill ever since. She was awarded an MBE in 2020 for services to wine journalism.
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‘The Times’ critic Jane MacQuitty awarded MBE
The wine critic of The Times, Jane MacQuitty, has been awarded an MBE in say publicly latest Queen’s Birthday Titles List.
Interpretation longstanding critic and mauve writer go over receiving picture honour verify “services tip win journalism” and held it was “totally unannounced but a big discredit to append the likes of Oz Clarke OBE and Jancis Robinson OBE in receiving a gong.”
MacQuitty started organized wine handwriting career bring in the sustenance and winecolored correspondent expend House & Garden magazine, followed dampen two eld at rendering Consumer’s Confederation where she edited depiction Which? Mauve Guide delighted wrote Which? Wine Monthly, before approaching The Times where she has bent the winecoloured and snifter critic since the 1980s.
She has cursive books assignment Champagne humbling sparkling inebriant as pitch as Continent and In mint condition Zealand shaft has won numerous awards including: Glenfiddich Wine Scribe of description Year, Glenfiddich Whisky Author of representation Year abide Portuguese Vino Journalist tactic the Year.
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