Edmund Lionel Penning-Rowsell (1913–2002) was a British journalist considered the doyen of Britain's writers on wine,[1][2] and possibly the world's longest-serving wine correspondent.
During the Depression years, his father's printing business went bankrupt, his education at Marlborough was cut short.
[4] Aided by those in the trade he gradually built up his knowledge and wine came to dominate his life.
[3] In 1954, he started writing a column about wine for Country Life, the first of many such enterprises.
[5] Michael Broadbent noted that Penning-Rowsell had one of the best private wine collections in England.