Michael Schuster is acknowledged internationally as an expert wine taster, wine writer and wine teacher with over 30 years experience. He studied tasting in Bordeaux, where he gained the University Tasting Diploma, and in the early eighties he helped create an award-winning wine retail business. Since 1986 he has worked independently as a writer, consultant, and lecturer, running his own wine school in north London with his wife Monika, a Cordon Bleu trained chef. In 2002 he was elected to the Academie Internationale du Vin.