Golden Vines Awards & Gerard Basset Foundation launch diversity scholarships for wine trade

Posted on March 4, 2021 by Amanda Barnes

Golden Vines Awards launches diversity scholarships for wine trade

A new awards ceremony, Golden Vines Awards, is set to celebrate ‘star performers in the fine wine industry’ as well as raise money for diversity scholarships and inclusion-oriented wine education programmes through The Gerard Basset Wine Education Charitable Foundation. The Awards is being organised by Liquid Icons, a fine wine research and production company which was founded by the late Gerard ...

Review: Gerard Basset, Tasting Victory

Posted on April 3, 2020April 4, 2020 by Amanda Barnes

Unlike many members, I never had the fortune to know Gerard. I did, however, know of Gerard. It seems there are few people in the wine world who have inspired so many others and made them all feel so welcome. Without exception, when his name has come up in conversation – no matter whether that conversation has been in England, France or even Chile – someone has told me about how delightful Gerard ...