Perhaps my proudest accomplishment in the wine trade has been graduating as a Master of Wine (MW) in 2014, a qualification as prestigious as it is difficult to achieve (there are currently only 340 Masters of Wine in the world, of whom just over 100 are women). Along the way, I managed to win four out of the seven prizes awarded in 2014, including the Outstanding Achievement Award, which is given to the graduate who excelled across all exam disciplines (tasting, theory and dissertation).

In 2015, I was also shortlisted for the inaugural Pio Cesare Food and Wine Writing prize at the annual Louis Roederer Awards, the Oscars of the wine writing world.

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