Wine guru Len Evans RIP

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One of Australia’s best known wine gurus, Len Evans, has died suddenly at the age of 75. According to a report from AAP he had suffered from heart problems and died in the car park of Newcastle Hospital while collecting a relative.
Acording to Wikipedia, Evans transformed blind tastings into a competition sport through his creating and developing the options game in which competitors attempt to identify each wines tasted.
In 1962 he became the first regular wine columnist in Australia and in 1973 he wrote the first major encyclopedia of Australian wine.
In these early days, he realised that Australia had to move from making sweet sherry-like fortified wines the kind of table wines we produce today.

Ed Charles is a journalist and digital consultant who spend the better part of the part two decades in Australia. He trained with IPC in London and has written for major international and national business and lifestyle titles. Establishing this blog in 2005, he was one of the first of a handful of food bloggers in Australia. He's spoken at the Melbourne Writers Festival and Emerging Writers Festival and has broadcasted regularly on food and digital media issues. He is currently writing a history of mankind told through food.

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