Last week co-author of Wine Grapes Dr José Vouillamoz came over to London from his native Switzerland to bewitch British wine writers with a wine tasting he describes below. In Jamie Goode's account of the event, José is described as 'a real star in the making: an ultra-cool scientist'. See Jamie's video of the tasting.
Wine writer Jim Budd was moved to wonder whether José is not wine's 'special one' – a reference to his sharing a first name with a certain particularly self-confident football manager. All the pictures we reproduce here with thanks were first published on Jim...