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Biography
Oz Clarke attended Pembroke College Oxford University and captained the wine-tasting team. The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...
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He now lives in West London.
Acting career Clarke started life as a fulltime actor and singer working for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre, The Old Vic and Chichester. In the West End, he played all the men in the Mitford Girls, Sweeny Todd and Peron in Evita. Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. ...
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Wine career In 1984 he became a full time writer. He joined the Sunday Express, where Lynn Barber was his ghost writer.[1] He then became wine correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. The Daily Express is a British newspaper, currently tabloid, and it is owned by Richard Desmond. ...
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He has also written many award-winning books (see below), but to the general public he is perhaps best known for his partnership with Jilly Goolden as the wine experts on the BBC2 Food and Drink programme. Jilly Goolden (born 1956) is a well-known British wine critic, journalist and television personality. ...
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More recently he appeared on Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure with James May and can be heard on BBC Radio 4 The Wine Programme with Andrew Jefford. Oz and Jamess Big Wine Adventure is a television series broadcast by the BBC in the autumn of 2006. ...
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Selected bibliography - Oz Clarke's Wine Guide (formerly Webster's Wine Guide) - annually since the late 1980's, now also on CD-ROM
- Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Book (annually since 1997)
- Oz Clarke's New Classic Wines
- Oz Clarke's Australian Wine Companion (2004)
- Oz Clarke's Encyclopedia of Wine (2003)
- Oz Clarke's Wine Atlas
- Oz Clarke's Grapes and Wines: A Guide to Varieties and Flavours (2003) by Oz Clarke & Margaret Rand
- Sainsbury's Regional Wine Guides and Sainsbury's Pocket Book of Wine
- Oz Clarke's Wine Companion to... - Bordeaux, Tuscany, Burgundy, California
- Microsoft Wine Guide (CD-ROM)
Awards - Wine Magazine Book of the Year
- Wine Guild of the United Kingdom Wine Writer
- Glenfiddich Drink Award 1992
- Andre Simon Drink Book Award
- Julia Child Cookbook Award
- Lanson Wine Book of the Year 2002
- Special Millennium Award, Le Prix du Champagne Lanson
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References - ^ Barber, Lynn 'Would you like claret?' No, I said, just some wine Observer 12th June 2005
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