There will be a host of celebrity experts at The Wine Show this year including Oz Clarke, Susy Atkins and Ewan Lacey. 

Oz Clarke

Oz is a prolific writer and endlessly popular both in print and in personal appearances. Breaking new ground with his Webster’s Wine Guide (now published annually as Oz Clarke’s Wine Guide) he has won all the major wine writing awards both in the UK and the USA, including the Glenfiddich (three times), André Simon, Wine Guild (three times), James Beard, Julia Child, World Food Media and Lanson (five times) awards; and more recently the prestigious International Wine & Spirit Competition International Drinks Communicator of the Year Award in 2006 and the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers' Award for his book, Bordeaux in 2009. In 1999 he won the Lanson Special Millennium Award for his outstanding contribution to wine communication and education.

His TV appearances have made Oz a household name. The phenomenally successful Oz and James' Big Wine Adventure, pairing Oz with James May of Top Gear, broadcast on BBC2, was followed by two further series, the most recent of which was shown on BBC 2 on Tuesday nights entitled Oz and James Drink to Britain. The series has won numerous awards including a TRIC award. The tie-in book won best wine education book at the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards in Feb 2010.

Having boosted James’ knowledge of wine, Oz has found himself a new apprentice in the form of Hugh Dennis. Hugh joined Oz for a BBC primetime Christmas special entitled Oz and Hugh Drink to Christmas. The show was a huge ratings success and a full series was commissioned to be filmed in the summer and broadcast in Autumn 2010 on BBC 2 primetime.

Throughout the year Oz hosts wine tastings and is in popular demand at the BBC Good Food Show in Birmingham and The Wine Show in London, which he appears at annually.

With such endless acclaim throughout the wine industry, Oz has now developed the Connoisseur range of openers, makers and shakers - drinks related products that bear his name.

For Oz Clarke's full biography click here.