DWWA judge profile: Victoria MacKenzie MW
Victoria MacKenzie MW is Head of Product Development for Wine Qualifications at the Wine & Spirit Education Trust.
Victoria MacKenzie MW is Head of Product Development for Wine Qualifications at the Wine & Spirit Education Trust.
Martin Lam is a mentor of the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts, a member of The Master Chefs of Great Britain, and also consults on wine, food and restaurants.
Chris Kissack is the author of TheWinedoctor.com, a subscription website which he has been publishing since 2000, and is a regular reporter from the annual Bordeaux en primeur tastings.
Martin Campion is Senior Product Manager for Laithwaite’s Wine.
Andrew Shaw is Head of Trading - Beers, Wines & Spirits at Marks & Spencer.
Frederic Marti is GM of Fred’s Wine Bar and Wine Director at The Typing Room located in East London's Town Hall Hotel.
Jane Parkinson is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and author.
Yves Desmaris MS is Wine Buyer, Head Sommelier and Restaurant Manager at Pied A Terre, Michelin Star restaurant in Charlotte Street, London.
Martin Hudson MW is a freelance wine advisor and educator.
Nicolas Clerc MS works as a Buyer for Armit Wines. He is President of the sommelier arm of the Academy of Food and Wine Service UK.
Sergio De Luca is Director of Buying for Italy at UK wholesaler Enotria&Coe.
Freddy Bulmer is a buyer at The Wine Society, sourcing their Australian, New Zealand, Austrian and Eastern European wines.
Michael Harrison has held many different roles in the wine trade including Sommelier, Wine Buyer, Fine Wine Manager and Consultant.
Jamie Avenell is a Senior Wine Buyer at Bibendum PLB, responsible for buying from Spain, Portugal, Champagne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Provence, New Zealand, and England.
Elvis Ziakos is Head Sommelier at The Greenhouse restaurant in London and has won many awards as a Sommelier.
Marcel Orford-Williams is a buyer for The Wine Society, sourcing from Rhône, Southern and regional French wines and Germany.
Pierre Mansour is Head Buyer at The Wine Society.
Nigel Wilkinson has run London’s RSJ restaurant for over 30 years, where the wine list boasts more than 300 wines from the Loire region.
Demetri Walters MW is a wine educator and presenter with many years of experience selling wine, providing product training, running wine schools, and hosting corporate & private wine tasting events to groups of all sizes, all over the world.
Jean Wareing MW is marketing manager for Alliance Wine.
Philip Tuck MW is Wine Director at Hatch Mansfield.
Tim Triptree MW is International Director, Wine at Christie’s. His main role is curating, sale planning and execution of Christie’s wine auctions internationally.
Colin Thorne buys wines for London’s Vagabond Wines group of wine shops and bars.
Daphne Teremetz is a wine buyer for UK grocer Waitrose, responsible for managing and sourcing the range of red and white still wines from all French regions.
Igor Sotric is Head Sommelier and Wine Buyer at China Tang at the Dorchester. He also acts as consultant to several restaurants, and since 2009 he has been making his own Chardonnay in Goriska Brda, Slovenia, with his friend Marijan Simcic.
Neil Sommerfelt MW is proprietor of NS Wine Consultancy, a business he set up in 2014. He works with a number of different companies including H2Vin Ltd and Philglas & Swiggot, with particular responsibility for their Burgundy En Primeur campaigns.
Previously a winemaker for Marks and Spencer, Gerd Stepp set up a winery at the site of Stepp Family Vineyards, where he now makes wine. He also consults through WeinWerk on various wine-related matter.
Erik Simonics is Group Head Sommelier for the Birley Clubs.
Julia Sewell was, until recently, Wine Manager at Hide Restaurant in Mayfair and is now pursuing her own project focusing on wine education.
Lenka Sedlackova MW is a senior brand manager at Bancroft Wines.