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Decanter appoints Editorial Content Director

Decanter, the wine title and a world-leading authority on wine, yesterday announced that John Stimpfig is to take up the role of editorial content director.

John is currently contributing editor at both Decanter and the Financial Times’ How to Spend It. John has 20 years’ experience writing about wine and in that time has received many accolades, winning major wine writing awards including the 2012 Louis Roederer International Wine Feature Writer of the Year.

Decanter publishing director Sarah Kemp says: “John’s knowledge of the international wine world and his keen journalist’s eye makes him the ideal person to take the editorial helm at Decanter. With over twenty years of experience writing about wine he is ideally placed to take Decanter on to the next stage.”

John adds: “I am thrilled and delighted to be joining the world’s best wine magazine as editorial content director. These are incredibly exciting times for Decanter, which continues to set the standards of wine writing both in print and online. My job will be to try and make Decanter even better for its international readership and I’m very much looking forward to the challenges and opportunities ahead.”

John will take up his new role on 30th September.