Mark Shipway on Clubhouse

Bio

Wine consultant, mentor & guide.

🍷Official Bourgogne Wines Ambassador for western Canada 🇨🇦

🥂🍾Champagne aficionado

🎓 DipWSET with Distinction
🍇 Foundation Degree in Wine Production
📜 CMS Advanced Sommelier (passed on 1st attempt)

🎙Moderator of Vancouver International Wine Festival's 'Truth in Terroir' series.

📖 Director of Education & Training - Christopher Stewart Wine & Spirits

🇮🇹🍷Instructor - Italian Wine Scholar

Former director of wine at The International Culinary School - 15 years teaching WSET courses including Diploma level

Original Brit 🇬🇧 who calls Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 home

👋WEEKLY CH ROOMS with @theblindtaster:

TASTE SMARTER is currently on hiatus but we will be back at Easter and check our club for occasional special episodes

A collection of wines we blind tasted in previous episodes here:

JM: Bodegas Emilio Moro 2017 Ribero del Duero, Spain
MS: Terroir Al Límit, Terra de Cuques 2017, Priorat, Spain

JM: Marietta Cellars 'Angeli Cuvée' 2014, Sonoma Co, California
MS: Force Majeure Syrah 2016, Walla Walla, Washington State

JM: Bodegas Garzón Single Vineyard Tannat 2016, Uruguay
MS: Achaval Ferrer 'Finca Mirador' Malbec 2011, Mendoza, Argentina

MS & JM: Trimbach 'Cuvée Frederic Emile' Riesling (Grand Cru) 2012 AOC Alsace, France - both selected same wine!

JM: Ch Verdignan Cru Bourgeois Supérieur 2005 AOC Haut-Médoc
MS: Ch Canon La Gaffelière 1er GCC 2005, AOC St Emilion Grand Cru
MS & JM: Ch Léoville-Barton GCC 2003, St. Julien, Bordeaux

JM: Marcel Deiss Schoenenbourg 2009 AOC Alsace Grand Cru, France
MS: Christian Moreau Les Clos 2013, AOC Chablis Grand Cru, France

JM: Culmina 'Hypothesis' 2014 Golden Mile Bench, BC, Canada

MS: Le Serre Nuove dell' Ornellaia 2012, Bolgheri, Italy

JM: Ch Mayne-Vieil 'Cuvée Aliénor' 2016 Fronsac, Bordeaux
MS: Ch Le Puy 'Emilien' 2012, Côtes de Francs, Bordeaux

JM: Torres Gran Coronas 'Mas La Plana' 2015, Penedès, Spain
MS: Leeuwin Estate Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon 2010, Margaret River, Australia

JM: Dom de Capelanel 'Cuvée Titouan' 2014 Cahors
MS: Catena Zapata Adrianna Vineyard 2010 Malbec, Mendoza

JM: Robert Weil - Kiedricher Riesling Trocken 2018 Rheingau
MS: Dr Bürklin-Wolf - Riesling Gaisbohl Monopole 2016 Pfalz

JM: Franciacorta - Berlucchi 61 Brut
MS: Classic Penedès - Albet I Noya 'Petit Albet' 2017 Brut Reserva