Speaker 2025

Helen Mcginn

Helen McGinn is an author, drinks writer, presenter and international wine judge. After spending a decade as a wine buyer for a leading supermarket she founded wine blog The Knackered Mother’s Wine Club, now a best-selling wine book. She writes about drinks for a number of publications including Waitrose Food Magazine and regularly appears on television as a wine expert on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen and ITV’s This Morning. Helen is also a best-selling fiction author with four published novels to date. Her fifth, Under A Riviera Moon, was published in April this year.

This speakers events: 

Sunday 18th may 2025

This speaker has no events on Sunday
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May 12th, 13th and 14th 2023

Friday 5pm to 10pm - Saturday 10am to 10pm - Sunday 10am to 5pm.

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