Marc Nadeau is the Managing Director of Académie du Vin, a wine school originally established in Paris in 1973 by Marc’s friend and partner, Steven Spurrier - the wine legend who will be known to many of our listeners as the man behind the 1976 Judgment of Paris....

British wine icon Steven Spurrier, who has been called “the man who changed wine forever” thanks to his role in organizing the momentous Judgement of Paris tasting in 1976. A consultant editor for Decanter and one of the masterminds behind the new Académie du Vin Library initiative, Spurrier has long been a champion of good wine as well as good wine writing.

Jugh Johnson chats about his recently revised The Story of Wine and how our understanding and appreciation of wine has evolved over his extraordinary 60-year career. Since the publication of his first book, Wine, at the age of 27, Johnson has forged a reputation as one of the subject’s most knowledgeable communicators.