The AIV was founded in 1971 by Constant Bourquin, a Swiss wine authority with a strong belief in 'natural' wines. Inspired by his book Le Vin, Spurrier introduced...
Académie Internationale du Vin – think tank extraordinaire
At the behest of Steven Spurrier, Dominique Lafon of Comtes Lafon fame, Jacques Seysses of Domaine Dujac, Jean-Pierre Perrin of Ch de Beaucastel and Bruno Prats, once of Ch Cos d'Estournel and now making wine in Chile and the Douro, came to London on the Monday before the London Wine Trade Fair to educate British wine writers on the subject of the association to which they all belong.