The Overall Winner of the Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year, Jon Wyand's winning shot: Gathering prunings on Corton Hill. Photography by Jon Wyand
Jon Wyand, a regular and key contributor to The World of Fine Wine since the magazine’s inception, has been named the Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year, part of the Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2022 awards.
Wyand’s winning entry, a depiction of a vineyard worker at the Corton Les Bressandes vineyard on the Hill of Corton in Burgundy, was also named the winner of the People sub-category, and beat off the winners in two further sub-categories, Places and Produce, to take the top prize.
Italian photorapher Marina Spironetti, took the Places prize, with a shot of the Antinori nel Chianti Classico winery, while Suzanne Becker Bronk from the United States picked up the Produce subcategory with an image from the Caldwell Vineyard, Napa Valley.
“I couldn’t be more delighted with the quality of this year’s images,” said the British wine and food writer, author, and presenter, and member of the judging panel, Joanna Simon. “When travel has been so curtailed, the ingenuity and, in many cases, the joie de vivre shown by the photographers has been inspiring.”
Joining Simon on the judging panel chaired by food photographer, David Loftus, were Magui Chadwick, family ambassador, Viňa Errazuriz and Viňa Seňa; Vitalie Taittinger, president, Champagne Taittinger; Patrick Grabham, art editor, Decanter; Charlotte Kristensen, wine communicator; and Lyndey Milan, food and wine Communicator, TV chef, and author.
An exhibition of the winners in all the categories of the Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2022 will be be held at The Royal Photographic Society, in Bristol November 20 to December 12, 2022.
Scroll down to see the winners and runners-up in all three categories.
Architecture and Wine by Marina Spironetti. A depiction of the Antinori nel Chianti Classico winery, it was the winner of the Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year Places sub-category.On Ice by Suzanne Becker Bronk, winner of the Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year Product sub-category, shows “dry ice being used to inhibit the start of fermentation at Caldwell Vineyard,” said Becker Bronk.Never Waste Wine, by Gilbert Bages @drinkinmoderation, from the UK, shows a scene from the Cal Cabo Celler winery in Costers del Segre, Catalonia. “Shooting with the Cal Cabo Celler winer family in the vineyards until it got dark. This is the daughter, playing with wine in front of the car headlights, just before we finished shooting,” said Bages.Another entry from American photographer Suzanne Becker Bronk, Woolly Weeders took the second prize in the Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year Places sub-category.Bubbles by Australian photographer Duy Dash, shows wine fermenting in open-top fermenters at Henschke in South Australia. It took the second prize in the Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year Produce sub-category.The English winemaker Peter Hall of Breaky Bottom in East Sussex is the subject of British photographer David Charbit’s Eight Days a Week, which took third place in the Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year People sub-category. Hall told Charbit “he works eight days a week, doing everything in the winery himself—even labeling the bottles.”Adrian Chitty @artisanalphoto took the third prize in the Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year Places sub-category for Vineyard Sunrise, an aerial view of a vineyard in the Dundee Hills AVA in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.Rioja Cellar by the British photographer Mick Rock shows bottles maturing at the Spanish region’s Bodegas Campillo. The shot took third prize in the Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year Produce sub-category.