HarrisonTate.co.uk
Title
Wine tasting London | corporate entertainment
Description
Our principal speaker, Richard More trained as a winemaker and as a wine taster at Université de Bordeaux in the mid 1970's where he spent almost two years totally immersed in wines, analyzing in the laboratory and tasting just about everywhere he could. After his gruelling apprenticeship in Bordeaux, Richard worked in London for a sherry and burgundy importer at which time he passed the wine-trade exams organised by the Wine & Spirit Education Trust, culminating in being a awarded a Diploma with Honours in 1979.
As such, Harrison,Tate’s roots go way back to 1980 under the name of 'Better Tasting Ltd', with Richard More as the principal lecturer. These popular courses were modelled on the world-renown Bordeaux University Wine Tasting degree course and the Diplôme Universitaire de l’Aptitude de la Dégustation des Vins. This was the first time that folk in the UK were taught how to taste analytically the individual components of a wine, and learn how to recognise consistently wine quality.
The course was an immediate success with enthusiastic amateurs and wine trade professionals alike. Demand grew, and soon an advanced course was being offered, then weekend courses, etc. Better Tasting was "laid down in the cellar" when Richard More left to take up the position of chief wine maker for Sandeman's in Oporto.