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Champagne Lanson Awards 1999.
Article Posted: Thursday August 30th
Article last updated on: Monday October 1st
The following awards were presented at Spencer House, the London home of the Earls of Spencer: Tim Atkin won the Black Label Award for articles in the UK newspapers The Observer Life and Decanter Magazine. Andrew Jefford won the Ivory Label Award for his BBC Radio Food programmes. Danielle Cernilli & Carlo Petrini won the Rose Label Award for Italian wines 1998. Editore & Slow Food Editore, published by Gambero Rosso. John Radford won the Gold Label Award for his book The New Spain, published by Mitchell Beazley. Tom Stevenson won the Nobel Cuvee Award for his book Christie's World Encyclopaedia of Champagne & Sparkling Wines, published by Absolute Press. Oz Clarke won the Special Millennium Award for outstanding contribution to wine education and communication. The prizes were presented by Madame Mora, the President of Champagne Lanson. For those of us who are very keen on horse racing it was very good news to hear that Lanson are sponsoring two races at the Goodwood summer meeting. They are the Champagne Lanson Sussex Stakes and the Champagne Lanson Vintage Stakes. * The next evening John Radford got the double up, his book also
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won the Glenfiddich drinks book of the year. The bookies kept their satchels intact, they could not pay out on the double as John had heard the result before he arrived at the prize giving ceremony. The PR company had sent out the results to the media beforehand, forgetting that as he is part of the media, John's colleagueswould see the release and telephone him to congratulate him. ** Now hardly appropriate, John Radford is to play Baron Hardup in Panto this Christmas.
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