知味君2020年10月26日，知味TasteSpirit宣布世界著名酒评家伊安· 达加塔Ian D’Agata先生加入团队，担任首席葡萄酒科学家，为知味的媒体评论、教育、荐酒和国际葡萄酒大型活动提供全面的指导和支持。他还将于不远的将来发布全新的国际葡萄酒评论和葡萄酒学院，担任评论主编和学院院长。
知味TasteSpirit是中国葡萄酒领域领先的媒体、教育机构、产品推荐平台和文化社群，其线上和线下社群拥有超过数百万活跃的葡萄酒爱好者和专业人士。在伊安·达加塔先生等世界级葡萄专家导师的支持下，知味成为了葡萄酒核心风土理念在中国的倡导者，每年组织举办风土大会和中国葡萄酒发展峰会这两项重要国际葡萄酒峰会。
伊安·达加塔先生在葡萄酒领域耕耘超过30年，在葡萄酒品评、葡萄酒科研写作和葡萄酒教育等方面，都取得了杰出的成果，在葡萄酒行业和葡萄酒爱好者中，享有世界性声望。
作为享誉国际的葡萄酒作家，伊安·达加塔先生的新著《意大利原生葡萄品种风土》被《纽约时报》提名为年度最佳葡萄酒书籍，上一部巨著《意大利原生葡萄品种》被誉为“意大利葡萄酒圣经”，入选《洛杉矶时报》、《金融时报》、《纽约时报》评选的“年度十佳葡萄酒书籍”，并荣获2015年Louis Roederer国际葡萄酒作家大奖赛“年度最佳书籍奖”，这也是第一也是唯一一次有意大利葡萄酒作家获此殊荣。
伊安·达加塔先生目前还在撰写最新版由Hugh Johnson主编的《葡萄酒袖珍书》的意大利章节——此书是世界上销量最高的葡萄酒指南，目前出版了43个版本，累计销量1200万册。他的创作主要涵盖意大利、法国和加拿大的葡萄酒和餐厅评论，是超过15本葡萄酒指南和书籍的作者，曾担任著名葡萄酒评论Vinous的高级编辑，负责法国波尔多、阿尔萨斯、意大利、加拿大等重要葡萄酒产区的评论工作，还担任过英国Decanter的特约编辑、意大利Collisioni的美食美酒创意总监，每年在巴罗洛举办的Indigena艺术节的创意总监和国际三大酒展之一Vinitaly的科学顾问。
为了表彰他在葡萄酒推广和研究方面的贡献，2018年达加塔先生入选意大利著名的学术学会Accademia della Vite e del Vino的正式成员，这是意大利历史最悠久的集合葡萄酒领域集大学教授和科学院院士的学会。达加塔先生曾还获得意大利国家 “最佳年轻葡萄酒作家”和 “最佳葡萄酒作家”奖，是唯一荣膺这两个奖项的葡萄酒作家。他的作品在意大利以外的国家也得到广泛认可——2016年，他被法国葡萄酒生产商、酿酒师和明星厨师提名为世界上8位最重要和最具影响力的葡萄酒作家之一（共同入选的还有Robert Parker、Jancis Robinson等酒评家）；2017年，他被授予加拿大Cuvée杰出葡萄酒写作和推广奖，以此表彰他对加拿大优质葡萄酒在国际上的支持和推广所做出的贡献；2018年，他获得加拿大原产地保护体系VQA推广人大奖。
伊安·达加塔先生精通英语、意大利语和法语，同时是一名拥有医学博士学位的研究者和科学家，他曾在罗马大学、哈佛大学等著名院校接受过多方面的严格医学训练。因为成绩优异，他成为第一位被哈佛医学院儿科系肠胃专业录取的意大利籍博士后，在细胞分子生物学领域进行了多年的深入研究，之后多年担任专业医生和加州大学UCSF医院儿科执行副主任。
他还是葡萄酒教育领域的权威专家，曾担任美国新墨西哥大学的酿酒学研究教授、纽约大学的食品科学硕士项目讲师，以及多家意大利大学和技术学校的葡萄酒管理与营销课程讲师。他还担任多家葡萄酒学校的创始人、科学总监和指导顾问，包括罗马国际葡萄酒学院、Vinitaly国际葡萄酒学院和位于巴罗洛的意大利国际本土中心葡萄酒和食品研究机构。所受的专业科学训练，让他的研究兴趣集中在本土酿酒葡萄品种和风土表达领域；他是这些被遗忘的意大利古老本土酿酒葡萄品种的复兴和风土文化传播最积极的推动者之一。
伊安·达加塔先生的加入和即将发布的全新项目，将在中国和世界葡萄酒领域书写异常精彩的新篇章！
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World-renowned Wine Critic Ian D’Agata Joins TasteSpirit as Chief Scientific Officer
SHANGHAI Oct. 26, 2020 — TasteSpirit, the leading wine media, wine education provider, product recommendation platform and cultural community about wine in China, today announces that world-renowned wine critic Ian D’Agata has joined the company as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). He will give his full support to TasteSpirit’s activities of wine media, wine education, wine recommendation and annual international events. He will also lead the creation of a new terroir-based wine school and be the Editor in Chief of a new digital international wine review that will feature a limited staff of well-known world class wine writers and experts.
The management team of TasteSpirit have known Ian for ten years and have always admired his huge knowledge about wines of the world, his leadership skills, organizational abilities and the almost endless amounts of energy and enthusiasm he brings to all the projects he is involved with. Given Ian’s current and past academic affiliations, and his having founded and co-founded numerous pioneer wine schools all over the world, the team of TasteSpirit believes Ian will help us achieve our present and future goals in further establishing a culture of terroir in both wine and food.
Ian D’Agata is recognized internationally as authority on Italy’s native grapes and wines: his two most recent, award winning books Native Wine Grapes of Italy and Italy’s Native Wine Grape Terroirs (both published by University of California Press) are widely viewed as the “state of the art” textbooks on the subject. Along with his former student and best pupil, Michele Longo, Ian is also currently the co-author of the Italy section in Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Book of Wine, the world’s best-selling wine guide.
As a former staff writer at Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar, Contributing Editor at Decanter, Senior editor at Vinous, and contributing writer at numerous other magazines and websites, he has also written extensively on the wines of France, Canada and other wine producing nations.
In recognition of his work devoted to the communication of wine knowledge and research, in 2015 Ian was named to Italy’s prestigious Accademia della Vite e del Vino, Italy’s association of university professors, researchers and academicians in the field of wine.
Over the years, he has been honoured with numerous other awards and titles, including the 2015 Louis Roederer International Book Awards Book of the Year, the Comitato Grandi Cru’s “Italy’s best wine journalist”, the 2016 Les Plumes d’Or awards nomination by French wine producers, winemakers and chefs (associated with Le Grandes Tables du Monde) as one of the world’s eight leading international wine writers and the 2017 Cuvée Award of Excellence (Ontario, Canada).
As a trained medical doctor at the hospitals of the Universities of Cincinnati, Harvard, Montréal and UCSF, Ian has won grants in cellular and molecular biology, which explains his interest and current research focus on the discovery and correct identification of forgotten, native, grape varieties all over the world and to have wines made from all of them once again.
TasteSpirit (tastespirit.com) is China’s leading wine media, wine education provider, product recommendation platform and cultural community about wine. Each year TasteSpirit organizes hundreds of wine tastings and courses all over China. In 2017 it was nominated by WSET the only finalist wine school in Asia for Best Educator of the Year. TasteSpirit is also the most important advocator of the concept of Terroir in China. It organizes two influential international wine summits annually – Terroir Renaissance International Wine Symposium and China Wine Summit.
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