Michel Bettane

Michel Bettane is a leading French wine critic, and for twenty years, a writer for the French consumer wine publication ''La Revue du vin de France''. He left ''La Revue'' in 2004 to work for the rivaling wine publication ''Le Classement des Meilleurs Vins de France''. He now runs his own website called Tastingbook.

Following the acquisition of ''La Revue du vin de France'' by ''Marie-Claire'' and media group Lagardère, Bettane and his colleague Thierry Desseauve left the publication on grounds of editorial differences, and the two launched their own series of wine guides, ''Le Classement des Meilleurs Vins de France''. Bettane also appears in publications such as ''Le Monde'', ''Decanter'' and ''The World of Fine Wine''.

Bettane is credited with coining the term ''"vin de garage"'' and its winemakers ''"garagistes"''.

In an interview with Swiss newspaper ''Le Temps'' Bettane stated that wine critics are "not gurus", and stated that criticisms by Jonathan Nossiter in his book ''Le Goût et le Pouvoir'' were "infantile". Provided by Wikipedia