James has been a Bordeaux-based wine writer since 1996. He cut his teeth in the wine trade in Paris in the 1980s with Steven Spurrier at Caves de la Madeleine then passed the MW exam in 1993. He was a long-time contributing editor to Decanter and contributes to The World Atlas of Wine, The Oxford Companion to Wine and Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book. Bordeaux is his speciality but he also covers other regions in France.
See James on James and all articles written by James Lawther MW.
