Best Wine Business within an Essex Eatery | |
Sponsored by Bibendum Wine Ltd (visit website) | |
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Anyone can have a wine list that has great wines on it and a great wine waiter but it doesn't necessarily mean they are a real wine destination! What we are looking for is a hotel or restaurant that really tries to lift their game in terms of wine. They should demonstrate a real passion for wine, a passion for sourcing it, presenting it and selling it. We are looking for well trained staff |
Judged by: Martin Day and Paul Cooke, Bibendum Wine Ltd Having studied for a Diploma in Wine and Spirits in London, Martin has been living and breathing wine for the past 12 years. He has managed licensed premises all across Essex including The Red Lion (Latchingdon), The Oval (Great Notley), The Bandstand (Southend) but mainly at The Pipe of Port in Southend, where he was in charge of a wine list of over 120 bins. His role also included hosting wine tastings and suppers on a regular basis, and his work has taken him to vineyards all across Europe. Martin now looks after licenced premises in South Essex for the forward thinking Bibendum Wine Limited, where he strives to both inform and stimulate people about the often over-complicated issue of wine. Paul is Bibendum's regional manager for Central and Eastern England. After running an independent wine merchants in North London called SWIG during the late Nineties Paul left the UK to make wine in Oz, France and New Zealand. Returning to the UK he made wine briefly in Essex and worked for an old fashioned fine wine merchants, also in Essex. Moving to Bibendum a few years ago he now supplies wines to the finest dining establishments in East Anglia. | |
