Taste-In, Taster Susie Barrie.

Susie Barrie is an award-winning wine writer, broadcaster and presenter. TV and radio credits include Saturday Kitchen (BBC 1), Great Food Live (UKTV Food), Food Network Daily (Carlton Food Network), Sky News, LBC Radio and BBC Radio Scotland.

In 2004 Susie published her first book, Champagne and Sparkling Wines (Mitchell Beazley). Her second book, Discovering Wine Country – Northern Spain (2006 Mitchell Beazley), won at the Gourmand World Awards 2006 and in it Susie gives full rein to her passion for food and travel, both subjects that she believes are fundamental to the enjoyment and understanding of wine.

In addition to her writing skills, Susie has lectured for Sopexa, the Port Wine Institute and Wines of Spain, and she’s a judge for the IWC, the IWSC and the Decanter World Wine Awards. Susie has judged the national French Wine Match competition and she regularly hosted the Celebrity Chef kitchen at the Organic food and wine fair in London. Susie had her own cocktail theatres at the first London-based BBC Good Food Show and has also hosted the Southern French wine theatres at the Vive La France show in Earl’s Court.

Susie is an increasingly familiar face on TV and is acknowledged as having an informed but no-nonsense approach to wine. Whether hosting large corporate tastings or a ‘girls’ night in’, her friendly and easy manner is appealing to audiences of all types.

Susie is an increasingly familiar face on TV and is acknowledged as having an informed but no-nonsense approach to wine.