Winner of ‘Tasting Victory’ Tasting Victory - The Life and Wines of the World’s Favourite Sommelier….Lionel Periner

After the announcement of the two winners of the Academie du Vin Library books, we have another prize winner to announce!

This book is very close to our hearts here at the UKSA. It’s the story of the late and greatly missed Gerard Basset ‘Tasting Victory - The Life and Wines of the World’s Favourite Sommelier.

The winner of a copy is….Lionel Periner. Congratulations Lionel.

Gerard’s inspiring story, succeeding against all odds and the monumentally positive contributions he made to the wine, fine dining & hospitality world is well worth a read for anyone interested in wine or fascinating life stories.

Those of you not as lucky as Lionel can get your own copy of ‘Tasting Victory’ on kindle and hard copy from all good book shops (Goodreads gave it a 4.2 so praise indeed!)

If books aren’t your thing, a film by 67 Pall Mall TV was made of his voyage to change the wine world and is packed with stories of love and laughter which can be watched free here.