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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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