The judges

Alistair Cooper

Cooper moved back to the UK in 2006 after years working for wineries in Chile and Argentina. A wine writer and consultant, he has contributed to various publications including Decanter, is resident wine expert for BBC Radio Oxford, and is now also writing his MW research paper.

Peter Richards MW

Richards is the DWWA Regional Chair for Chile and has published The Wines of Chile and his own Chile Wine Brief. He is a guest presenter on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen and, together with his wife Susie Barrie MW, runs a wine school and wine festival in Winchester.

Patricio Tapia

Tapia is the DWWA Regional Chair for Argentina. He is the South American wine critic for Wine & Spirits magazine in the US, and also writes the annual Descorchados bilingual wine guide to Argentinian, Chilean and Uruguayan wine.