Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Laura Clay is the UK Champagne Ambassador 2010


Congratulations to Laura Clay who won the UK Champagne Ambassador 2010 Award at the Dorchester Hotel in London last week.  Presenting on the theme of Champagne Diversity, Laura fought off competition from fellow AWE members, Helen Savage and Gilbert Winfield.

The finalists were judged on their knowledge, communication skills and ability to bring the subject alive; the judges were Gerard Basset MW, Peter McCombie MW, Nicholas King (WSET), Daniel Lorson (Director of Communication at the CIVC) and Francoise Peretti (Director of the Champagne Bureau UK).

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Ken Sheather wins “Specialist Merchant of the Year for Portugal”

We are very pleased to announce that AWE member Ken Sheather has won the “Specialist Merchant of the Year for Portugal” award in the 2010 International Wine Challenge awards.

The award was presented by Francisco Borba, the president of ViniPortugal at the awards dinner at the Hilton Park Lane on Tuesday, 7th September.