The Taste-In Tasters.
Our private and corporate wine tasting service groups together top experts and professionals in the wine world enabling them to share their love of wine with wine enthusiasts.
Tim Atkin, MW
Tim has been the wine correspondent of The Observer for over a decade. He also writes for Class, Decanter, and The World of Fine Wine. His broadcast experience includes presenting the wine series, ‘Grape Expectations’ on the Carlton Food Network ....More
Susy Atkins
Wine writer, author and broadcaster, Susy Atkins started her career working on Wine Magazine....More
Susie Barrie
Susie Barrie, MW is an award-winning wine writer, broadcaster and presenter. In September 2009 Susie became a Master of Wine, making her one of the most recent new members of this highly respected group of experts.....More
Michael Broadbent, MW
Originally trained as an architect, Michael Broadbent became a Master of Wine in 1960 and head of the Christies’ Wine Department in 1966. He has been Chairman of the Institute of Masters of Wine, and International President of the Wine and Food Society....More
Tom Cannavan
Tom Cannavan is a Scottish wine writer and journalist, who was one of the pioneers of wine on the Internet when he launched wine pages.com back in 1995....More
Henri Chapon, MS
Henri is an award winning Master Sommelier and has worked in a range of prestigious establishments including the Manoir au Quatre Saisons where he worked closely with Raymond Blanc.....More
Brett Crittenden
Brett has been involved with the wine industry for more than 30 years. Australian, living in the UK and having worked in Australia, Argentina, France, UK, USA and Russia, he certainly has a very global perspective of the wine industry!........More
Oz Clarke
Oz’s BBC TV appearances, most notably on Food and Drink, are broadcast around the world. He has won all the major wine writing awards both in the UK and the USA, including the Glenfiddich (three times), André Simon, Wine Guild (three times), James Beard, Julia Child and Lanson (five times) awards........More
John Downes, MW
John Downes is a highly experienced performer on the wine circuit. A Master of Wine since 1994, John has appeared on numerous TV and radio channels including Radio 4, BBC news programmes, GMTV, Sky, CNN and CNBC......More
Joe Fattorini
Joe has been wine writer for The Herald in Scotland for over a decade. As well as writing for a variety of magazines and presenting regularly on radio and television, Joe works closely with the PGA TOUR and Tournament Players Club (TPC) network in the United States.......More
Vincent Gasnier, Master Sommelier
Since becoming an award winning sommelier (and the youngest ever Master Sommelier) more than a decade ago, Vincent has moved into wine writing, wine consultancy and wine judging...More
Rosemary George, MW
Apart from being an award winning freelance journalist and specialist wine lecturer, Rosemary is the author of ten wine books. These include ‘The Wines of the South of France, From Banyuls to Bellet’, ‘The Wines of New Zealand’ ......More
Malcolm Gluck
Malcolm Gluck became one of the UK’s most popular and iconoclastic wine writers when he began his weekly Superplonk wine column in the Guardian.......More
Andrew Jefford
Andrew Jefford has been writing about wine since the late 1980’s. He has written eleven books and guides on wines and spirits, including the widely admired ‘The New France’. ....More
Robert Joseph
Robert Joseph was described by Decanter Magazine as one of the 50 people in the world who would be influencing wine drinking in the 21st century.......More
Peter McCombie, MW
Peter writes for a number of magazines including Restaurant, Decanter and Square Meal and is a respected senior judge......More
Charles Metcalfe
Charles began his career in the City and then worked as a professional singer. He co-founded Wine International Magazine with Robert Joseph over 20 years ago and has been contributing to it since then. .....More
Rose Murray Brown, MW
Scotland’s leading drinks journalist, educator and broadcaster – and one of very few Masters of Wine based there.....More
Jonathan Ray
Jonathan is the Wine Editor of the Daily Telegraph and the
author of several books on wine......More
Peter Richards
Peter Richards is one of the UK’s youngest award-winning wine writers and broadcasters.TV credits include Saturday Kitchen (BBC1), Taste (Sky One), Daily Cooks (ITV1) and UKTV Food’s Great Food Live and Food Uncut......More
Jancis Robinson, OBE, MW
Jancis is one of a handful of wine writers as well known in San Francisco and Sydney as in London, not least for her ability to communicate and entertain.......More
Xavier Rousset, Master Sommelier
French born Xavier Rousset studied to be a sommelier in Saumur. At the age of 20, he started as an Assistant Chef Sommelier at Gérard Basset’s renowned Hotel du Vin in Bristol... .More
Olly Smith
Olly Smith is a uniquely enthusiastic British TV presenter currently hosting Iron Chef UK for Channel 4. Olly also appears regularly on BBC1's Saturday Kitchen as well as being the host of Gordon Ramsay's Taste of Christmas.....More
Steven Spurrier
Steven has over 40 years experience in wine. In the 70's he founded L’Academie du Vin, France’s first independent wine school. The Academy held the now famous tasting comparing top California Chardonnays and Cabernets with top white Burgundies and Red Bordeaux. .....More
Anthony Rose
Anthony Rose is the wine correspondent of the Independent, for which he writes a weekly column as well as various travel-related articles. He also contributes to specialist wine press including Decanter, Wine & Spirit, Off Licence News, Harpers Wine & Spirit Weekly and the World of Fine Wine. During his career, Anthony has contributed to a number of wine books.....More
Michael Schuster
Michael Schuster studied tasting in Bordeaux where he gained the University Tasting Diploma. After building an award-winning retail business in the '80s he now works independently as a writer and lecturer, running his own wine school, Winewise, in north London......More
Joanna Simon
Joanna Simon is an award-winning wine writer long associated with The Sunday Times, where she wrote a weekly wine column from 1987 to 2009 and still writes on cookery for the Style magazine....More
Joe Wadsack
Flamboyant and straight talking, Joe won the coveted International Wine and Spirit Communicator of the Year award 2005. His first TV appearance was on Rick Stein's Fresh Food in 1997 showing off his skills as a supermarket wine buyer......More
Simon Woods
Simon began to indulge his two hobbies, wine and writing in 1988. In the past decade he has been coordinator of the annual International Wine Challenge, columnist for The Financial Times, The Business Magazine and five-times editor of the award-winning annual ‘Which? Wine Guide’......More
The Taste-In tasters, top experts and professionals from the wine world.
