2015 Decanter World Wine Awards: some photos

Judges listening as Sarah Kemp and Steven Spurrier 

set the scene for the day

– how to deal with over 16,000 wines @Tobacco Dock

DWWA judges gathering at the start  of the day

Nigel Wilkinson (RSJ Restaurant) judging Loires

Up at 3.20am to fly south from Edinburgh 

Chris Kissack (The Wine Doctor) is admirably awake

 Nicolas Clerc MS (Morris & Verdin)

Nicolas joined the Loire panel for two days 

Ian d'Agata

Monty Waldin – the UK PetNat guy

 

Mai Tjemsland MW

  Pedro Ballesteros Torres MW 

taking an exploratory sip of water...

not sure it will catch on 

Shane Jones, the Red Shirt who looked after 

our Loire panel brilliantly on Tuesday and Wednesday 

2012 Decanter World Wine Awards: some pics from Day 2

One of the tasting rooms@The Worx – early morning already to go

The workers' breakfast

Christabel Lemke

Danny Casely: logistics supremo

Christelle Guibert: organiser of the DWWA

John Radford: Señor Spain  

John Switzer and Tony Aspler

John Switzer 

 Michael Schuster: Burgundy

Emily O'Hare: wine buyer for The River Café

Michael Hill-Smith MW: Australia

Now that John Livingstone-Learmonth's Rhône panel has started to award a few Gold medals, John has obviously decided he ought to carry a gold sticker around with him just in case ...  

 Panos Kakaviatos and something German

 Allan Cheesman in sombre mood!

Ian d'Agata: Italy

 Viewing Giles MacDonogh with his German group