Oz Clarke - Wine Celebrity

Oz is available to co-host Grape Debate events, when he isn’t swanning around the globe drinking wine with Royalty, Presidents and ….James May!

Oz is a fantastic host with bundles of energy and a highly infectious passion for all things wet.

Oz's wine career began when he captained the wine-tasting team for Oxford University. After graduating, Oz spent a number of years as an actor before turning to writing professionally in 1984.

He has been wine correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. His first book, the first edition of Webster's Wine Guide (now annually published Oz Clarke's Wine Guide) won the first Wine Magazine Book of the Year Award and the first Wine Guild of the United Kingdom Wine Writer Award.

Oz was a long running presenter of BBC TV's Food and Drink programme where his remarkable tasting ability has won him great notoriety. In 1996 Oz filmed his own series An Australian Odyssey, in which he traveled around the outback and the cities retracing the remarkable steps of the Australian wine pioneers. Oz is currently starring in BBC TV’s OZ & James’s Big Wine Adventure.