- Post-nominal initials
Dip WSET
- Location
Surrey
- Country
UK (excl N Ireland)
- Telephone
07962 133487
- Website
- Available for
Corporate events, Club/Society tastings, Private tastings, Trade/Sommelier training, Public/trade wine shows, Food and wine matching
- Other wine work
Wine writing
- Specialities
France, Loire, Southwest France, Rhône, Champagne, Sparkling Wines, English sparkling wines, Food and Wine Matching, Franciacorta, Sicily, Languedoc-Roussillon, Provence, Beaujolais, Cava, Rioja, cheese and wine matching
- Qualifications
WSET Certificate and Higher Certificate, WSET Diploma, Wine Scholar Guild Champagne Master Level (Highest Honours), Certified Rhône Educator, Certified Rioja Educator, Advanced Cava Educator, Associate of the Academy of Cheese, Member of the Circle of Wine Writers, UK Champagne Ambassador 2018, BIIAB National Certificate for Personal Licence Holders, WSET Assessor (Level 1 – Foundation)
- Company Name
Red White & Rosé
- Other Websites
- Experience
I’m a committed francophile, except in matters of rugby, so am always happy exploring the classic (and the less well known) wines of France. Champagne and sparkling wines are a continuing passion, and I am UK Champagne Ambassador 2018 and hold the Champagne Master Level qualification from the Wine Scholar Guild. I am also one of three Certified Rhône educators in the UK. Outside France I am a Certified Rioja educator and Advanced Level Cava Educator.
However, I am always on the lookout for what’s new and exciting in the world of wine and keep my knowledge as broad and up to date as possible.
Following a ten year stint in the travel technology business, where wine appreciation was strictly recreational, I began studying the WSET Diploma in Wine & Spirits and realised my future career lay in wine.
Studies complete, I set up Red White & Rosé in 2006, specializing in fun, informative wine events. Since then I have conducted tastings for corporate clients, wine societies, private groups, business networking organisations as well as for the wine trade.
I never like to deliver dry lectures (in either sense of the word) and am happy to work with the format that works best, from a classic approach, to fast-paced blind tasting quizzes – and most things in between.
I have worked with wine groups and societies, presented consumer and wine trade masterclasses and to numerous corporate clients.
A regular judge for the Decanter World Wine Awards, I also enjoy writing about wine – especially of the sparkling variety. In 2018 I held the first edition of Love Wine Guildford, a one-day festival for wine lovers, in conjunction with fellow AWE members Laura Clay and Richard Bampfield MW.