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John Middleton
An Introduction to Fine Wine
John Middleton has been a
lecturer in higher education for 15 years and has taught management,
economics, philosophy and teacher education on the postgraduate level.
He has designed and delivered courses in fine wine for more than 10
years and acted as a regional tasting consultant to the world's premier
wine merchant, Oddbins (London), as well as to Europe's leading on-line
wine merchant, Laithwaites. He has also contributed articles on
fine wine to various newspapers, magazines and Web sites in the UK, and
has travelled widely in the world of wine, hosting hundreds of
wine-tastings in the USA, South Africa, France, Spain, and his native
England. He spent a year working at a vineyard in Burgundy,
France, as a means of comprehending the process of wine-making in its
totality. His formal wine education has been with the prestigious
London-based Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) and resulted in
awards graded with distinction. He has been an accredited tutor
with the WSET since 2003 and taught wine to degree and postgraduate
level students in the hospitality industry.
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