In 1995, I was invited to join the team responsible for choosing the wine on British Airways. I felt very grown-up.
Other team members were Hugh Johnson, the world’s best-selling wine author, Michael Broadbent, head of Christie’s wine department, and Colin Anderson, another Master of Wine who was once responsible for buying so much wine for Allied Lyons that his nose was insured with Lloyd’s.
We would all trek out to Hatton Cross and taste blind hundreds of wines submitted in the hope of being airborne. Eventually, we came up with a shortlist that gave the BA buying team something to get their teeth into.
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