The English wine expert Charles Metcalfe (*1949) founded Wine International magazine with Robert Joseph in 1984, which was later renamed Wine & Spirit International. He also initiated the two competitions International Wine Challenge and International Spirit Challenge, which he organised annually. He sold the journal and competitions to the newspaper publisher William Reed in 2006. Metcalfe regularly appears on various TV programmes on the subject of wine and food. He is considered a specialist in Spanish and Portuguese wines and a profound wine critic. According to his own statement, he often tastes up to 100 wines a day.
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