Joe Wadsack

Joe studied wine-making in Bordeaux and has since worked as a wine buyer and consultant for a number of leading supermarket chains. He is no stranger to television with his role as Richard and Judy’s wine expert on Channel 4 as well as his own series Great Wine Walks for UKTV’s Good Food Channel.

Flamboyant and straight-talking, Joe is a recipient of the coveted International Wine and Spirit Communicator of the Year Award. He has a great palate that culminated in him becoming the youngest ever International Senior Judge at The Royal Melbourne Wine Show at 29 years old. In fact, Joe judged the Royal Melbourne Wine Show in October 2013, making him the only International Senior Judge in its 130-year history to judge it 3 times. He was a Panel Chairman of the International Wine Challenge.

Oz Clarke describes Joe’s tasting ability as “excellent … with an extraordinary wine tasting repertoire”.

Joe has enjoyed great success during the COVID lockdown creating fascinating interactive virtual wine tasting sessions for audiences worldwide.

To book Joe Wadsack to speak at your event or one of his online wine tasting sessions contact Great British Speakers (0044) 1753 439 289 Contact us here.

Type Of Speaker

Event Hosts Hospitality, Food & Drink Presenters

More About Joe Wadsack

JOE WADSACK: BROADCASTER

Joe is a well-known TV face serving as Richard and Judy’s wine expert (Channel 4) and is the author of the Richard & Judy Wine Guide (Harper Collins). For three years Joe also appeared as The Wright Stuff’s Wine Expert (Channel 5) guiding the viewers to the month’s best buys. He was The Terry & Gaby Show’s Wine Expert, and a weekly contributor to Great Food Live, UKTV’s Good Food’s live lunchtime show. His own series for Good Food is still being shown – Joe Wadsack’s Great Wine Walks with Kitty Johnson the daughter of the famous Hugh Johnson. Joe is also the Drinks Expert on BBC TV’s ‘Food and Drink’ programme with host Tom Kerridge.

JOE WADSACK: WRITER & JOURNALIST

Joe was the Wine Expert for the Sunday Express for many years. Joe also writes for Trade Paper Harpers and wrote monthly for Waitrose Food Illustrated and quarterly for Waitrose in Season. Joe was shortlisted in 2013 in the Roederer Awards for ‘World’s Best Wine’ blog. Gaining a WSET Diploma Distinction in 1992, Joe also won the Viva prize and went Piedmont for a week. He was at l’Institute d’Oenologie in Bordeaux in 1991 and received a Stage 7 winemaking diploma (the equivalent today of a Postgraduate modern winemaking practices course.)

Joe Wadsack broadcaster speaker wine expert somelier virtual wine tastings at Great British Speakers

JOE WADSACK: CONSULTANT

One of Joe’s most enjoyable and gratifying jobs was working as a wine consultant for Dartington Crystal in Devon, where he aided their design department in creating their hugely successful lead-crystal Wine Master glass range. The Chef’s Taster glass is still considered by many to be the finest tasting glass available today.

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 the regular host for the annual Tesco Wine Fairs around the British Isles.

JOE WADSACK: WINE JUDGE

The other activity which perhaps Joe is most renowned for is being a wine judge for various international wine competitions. 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.