Matt Walls is an award-winning freelance wine writer, author, blogger and consultant, contributing regular articles to Decanter, Foodism, timatkin.com, Harpers Wine & Spirit, Imbibe and others. His wine blog /see below) gained him the 2015 International Wine & Spirit Competition Blogger of the Year. His first book on wine, Drink Me, won Best Newcomer at the 2013 Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards. In addition to writing, Walls advises restaurants on wine lists, hosts tastings, trains staff, and judges at food and wine competitions. He was previously fine wines manager at Mentzendorff and set up, managed and bought wines for the flagship store of The Sampler.

Websitewww.mattwalls.co.uk

Bibliography

Matt Walls profile, DWWA, Decanter World Wine Awards 2017.