Simon Hoggart

Simon Hoggart is wine correspondent for the Spectator and has been running the magazine's wine club since 2001. Since then, readers of the Spectator have spent millions of pounds on his wine offers. He is a frequent broadcaster on vinous topics.

He is also parliamentary sketch-writer and weekly columnist for The Guardian and author of 17 books - written when he could find the time between searching for great wines - on many and varied subjects that have attracted his sharp focus and sardonic wit. But this is his first book on his greatest love - wine.