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 Gilbert Winfield
is the owner and chief presenter of Winfield Wine Events, a company specialising
in wine tasting events for corporate entertainment.
Having gained a
degree in Chemistry from Bristol University, he settled into a career in wine,
working from 1980 until 1986 with Steven Spurrier, in his wine operation in
Paris. Thoroughly familiar by this stage with fine French wines, he then
expanded his horizons, working for a year for an Italian wine producer, Castello
di Uzzano, in Chianti. He returned to England in 1987, where he worked for a
number of companies in various sales roles, before starting Winfield Wine Events
in 1997.
He is
on the tasting panel of Decanter magazine, and obtained his Diploma in wine from
the WSET in 1991, but he enjoys explaining wine to people in an informal,
humorous, and approachable style. |
