1.20pm - 2.00pm
The Wines of Portugal
Hosted by Charles Metcalfe
Charles Metcalfe is one of the best-known, most spontaneous and amusing wine critics in Britain. He presented drinks and occasionally food items for 12 years as one of the Richard-and-Judy team on the ITV programme, ‘This Morning’, and was the drinks expert for ‘Taste Today’ on the Taste TV CFW channel. He has also presented many wine and food programmes on the Granada Breeze satellite channel.
He is co-chairman of the International Wine Challenge, the world’s biggest wine competition, held annually in London, and was one of the founders of Wine INTERNATIONAL magazine.
Charles’ book, ‘The Wines of Spain & Portugal’ won the 1989 Glenfiddich Drinks Book of the Year Award. He is currently writing a book called ‘The Wine and Food Lover’s Guide to Portugal’. Charles talks regularly about wine to public and private audiences.