Welcome to my site, which features my award-winning work as a writer, blogger and the UK’s only INDEPENDENT consultant on wine.

In its previous guise my blog was cited by the media monitoring company Cision in its list of the UK’s top ten wine blogs.

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In my 16 years in the wine industry I have travelled and tasted in nearly all the world’s major wine regions. I have judged at wine competitions in Austria, Brazil, Chile, China, France, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and Italy and worked harvests in France, Italy and Australia. I have experienced every aspect of the wine industry: I have sold wine, bought wine, made wine and written about wine.

My articles on art, cricket, cinema and travel have been widely published. 

As a broker, I oversaw the sale of the oldest and most expensive bottle of Barolo ever auctioned (and at that time the oldest and most expensive bottle of Italian wine ever sold): 1894 Fontanafredda, sold for HK$30,440 (US$3,930/UK£2,475/€3,095) in October 2011.