Club 30-50

Tamlyn Currin started doing wine classes with Michael Schmidt about five years ago, and then went down the more conventional route by doing the WSET Intermediate and Advanced in 2006. She plans to be writing her final WSET Diploma exams in June 2009. She recently tried out a less formal approach.

If enthusiasm and vitality are infectious, Chris Scott (pictured) should be quarantined. I was not entirely sure whether to expect much from an Introduction to Wine and Wine Tasting class at the Ochre Bar near St Paul’s in London last month. I left invigorated, and it wasn’t simply owing to...