My first glass of wine was a red at the age of 5. My uncle Max insisted I drink it. You tend not to say no to an ex-Spitfire pilot with one eye. So I didn’t. I was immediately hooked, but it took another two decades, some experiments with Malibu, and three years of debauchery at college before I came back to my first love. Since then it’s been wine all the way for me, with a little whisky and beer thrown in for good measure.

Over the 24 years since I did embrace wine as my future I’ve learnt one simple thing. Whatever your budget, whatever your tastes, it isn’t much fun if you can’t share it, learn from it… hell, just revel in it. The Brighton Wine Company is my effort to help people do that, and, with a little luck share some wild and wonderful times over a glass of wine with like-minded bon-viveurs.