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Beverley Blanning is a British Master of Wine, a journalist and author on the subject of wine.

Career
Beverley Blanning passed the Master of Wine examination on her first attempt in 2001, in the process winning the Villa Maria and Errazuriz awards. She attained the accreditation concurrently with wine journalist Tim Atkin.

She is a regular feature writer for Decanter and contributor to Tom Stevenson's annual Wine Report, and Jancis Robinson's The Oxford Companion to Wine, covering the subject of wine and health. Blanning also has published work in periodicals such as Wall Street Journal Europe, The World of Fine Wine, Quarterly Review of Wines and Sommelier Journal.

Blanning is also a wine educator, and is a frequent wine competition judge of events such as Decanter World Wine Awards.

Blanning has published the books Choosing the Right Wine (2008) and the booklet on biodynamic wine, Biodynamics in Wine (2010), edited by Julia Harding MW, assistant to Jancis Robinson, MW.

debate followed the article "Objections to Biodynamics" by Jesús Barquin and Douglass Smith on The World of Fine Wine.