Monty Waldin

Decanter Magazine & DWWA Regional Chair for Tuscany

Monty Waldin is a British broadcaster, author and occasional winemaker, specialising in organics and biodynamics. His first book, The Organic Wine Guide, published in 1999, was voted Britain’s Wine Guide of the Year. His other award-winning books include Biodynamic Wines and Wines of South America. In 2008 he was the subject of ‘Château Monty’, a wine-making documentary series on biodynamic winemaking in the Roussillon, France. As well as writing regularly for Decanter, Monty contributes the entries on organics, biodynamics and sustainability for the Oxford Companion to Wine. He co-created and now hosts VinItaly International’s Italian Wine Podcast. Monty Waldin was the Regional Chair for Tuscany at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) 2019.