Matt Walls, Côtes-du-Rhône specialist, is an award-winning freelance wine writer, author and broadcaster who contributes to various UK and international publications. He is a contributing editor for Decanter and panel chair for the Rhône at the Decanter World Wine Awards. Previously he was a wine buyer and manager at London wine retailer The Sampler. He has recently returned to the UK after living near Avignon for two years to research his forthcoming book The Wines of the Rhône (Infinite Ideas), which is due to be published in January 2021. You can preorder at Blackwells or Foyles.

Celebrity chef and wine expert Joe Wadsack is known for his various television appearances and contributions to a number of culinary publications, he has worked as a judge at international wine festivals and cultivated his own wines for some of the UK's biggest retailers and wineries. For the last few years Joe has acted as a consultant to various companies in the wine trade, and continues to host tastings all over the country as well as abroad. He is and has been a Panel Chair for ten years at The International Wine Challenge, the world’s largest blind wine tasting, and is a regular international guest judge on the Royal Australian Wine Show Circuit.