One key route to success is to identify a gap in the market and be the first to fill it. We like to think that we spotted such a gap, a consumer magazine focused on English wine just as the UK and the world wakes up to the great quality of English wine.

In Dec 2015 Taittinger bought 69 hectares of farmland in Kent to plant vines for production of English sparkling wine.

After many years in publishing I founded ukvine.com, the go-to site for news on the English wine industry. 2 years ago, I established a weekly e-news with some some 1,700 subscribers who enjoy or want to try English wine. I now publish a glossy bi-monthly wine magazine – ukvine magazine – the first to reflect the multi-million pound industry of wine made in England.

Also I am now looking for new opportunities so if you want to employ a 25 year old social media geek with bags of experience and a whizz at arranging exhibitions, trapped inside a 55 year old's body please contact me.