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DWWA judge profile: Alison Buchanan

Alison Buchanan is a judge at the at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA)

Alison Buchanan profile:

Alison Buchanan supplemented her undergraduate income as a chef and initially studied wine to complement her love of cooking. Her wine career began at the sharp end, managing a store for one of the multiples, before she joined Scotland’s oldest wine merchants, Whighams of Ayr, in 1989.

When Corney & Barrow bought Whighams in 1994, Buchanan continued in Scotland before moving to London as associate director of buying in 1998. Buchanan completed an MBA in 2005 and today she looks after the top relationships in the Corney & Barrow portfolio, heading up their fine wine buying department.

Buchanan was first a DWWA judge in 2006.

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