| Charles Metcalfe | |
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Charles Metcalfe is one of the best-known, most spontaneous and amusing wine critics in Britain. He presented drinks and occasionally food items for 12 years as one of the Richard-and-Judy team on the ITV programme, ‘This Morning’, and was the drinks expert for ‘Taste Today’ on the Taste TV CFW channel. He has also presented many wine and food programmes on the Granada Breeze satellite channel. His recent TV appearances have been as a wine expert on ‘Great Food Live’ and ‘Sunday Lunch Live’ on UK Food (BBC digital TV/Sky TV). He is co-chairman of the International Wine Challenge, the world’s biggest wine competition, held annually in London, and was one of the founders of Wine INTERNATIONAL magazine. You can read Charles regularly in ‘blue Wine’ (if you speak Portuguese!), and he is the UK correspondent for ‘Wine Business International’, a trade magazine published in Germany. He is working with his wife, Kathryn McWhirter, on a book about Portuguese wines, food and places to visit, ‘The Wine & Food Lover’s Guide to Portugal’. ‘The Wines of Spain & Portugal’, again co-authored with Kathryn, won the 1989 Glenfiddich Drinks Book of the Year Award.Their ‘Sainsbury’s Pocket Food & Wine Guide’, a guide to which wines to drink with which food, was published in October 1995. They also co-authored the Wine Guide on the tesco.com web-site. He also acts as a consultant for restaurant wine lists.
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| Qualifications | Winner Glenfiddich Wine Book of the Year 1989; Chairman Gran Orden de Caballeros del Vino. | |
| Areas of special interest | Spanish wines; wine and food matching | |
| Address | Old Inn House, London Road, Balcombe, Haywards Heath, RH17 6JQ | |
| Telephone | 01444 811682 | |
| Fax | 01444 811303 | |
| Mobile | 07767 420549 | |
| charlesmetcalfe@btopenworld.com | ||
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