Will Lyons is a British

United Kingdom

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 business

Corporate media

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 correspondent and wine

Wine

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 columnist formerly writing for Scotland on Sunday

Scotland on Sunday

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. Since November 2009 he has a weekly wine column with The Wall Street Journal Europe

The Wall Street Journal

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, following the departure of Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher

Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher

Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher are American journalists, authors and wine critics, wife and husband who jointly wrote a wine column in The Wall Street Journal titled "Tastings" between 1998-2009. They rated wines on a scale that ranges from "Yech", "OK", "Good", "Very Good", "Delicious" to...

, and was in April 2010 joined by Lettie Teague

Lettie Teague

Lettie Teague is an American author and currently a wine columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Teague was for several years with Food & Wine, as wine editor of the magazine since 1997 and executive wine editor since 2005, until 2009.-Biography:...

 and Jay McInerney

Jay McInerney

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. Lyons also writes a wine column for Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest

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, and is wine editor for The Spectator Business.

Before journalism, Lyons has worked as a wine merchant for Justerini & Brooks and Lea & Sandeman in London. He has previously acted as president of the Edinburgh University Wine Society.

Lyons won the 2008 Louis Roederer Writers Awards' Regional Wine Writer, and was a runner-up for the award in 2006 and 2009. In 2008 and 2009, he was one of the shortlist for the Scottish Press Awards' Financial Business Journalist .

External links

• Will Lyons article archive Wall Street Journal Europe
• Will Lyons article archive Wall Street Journal blog "On Wine"
• Will Lyons article archive Scotland on Sunday