Who are we?

You will meet and talk to a wide range of experts during the tour including chateau owners and vignerons as well as cheese makers and olive oil producers.

The Tour Leader is wine expert Hamish Wakes-Miller.  He lives in the heart of the Languedoc wine region and is a noted exporter of wines to high-quality outlets across the UK.
 

Dr Jacques Thompson
 

Jacques is a former top executive with the US based Dow group.  He is a fluent French, Italian and English speaker.  His wife Liz runs a corporate communications company serving clients across Europe from their home in the Minervois.

They also operate  Les Ecuries seminar centre in the village of Cesseras, close to Carcassonne.  Jacques is also involved in the marketing of quality regional wines for local producers.
 
 

Ken Rees
 

Ken is an award winning former US and White House correspondent for the UK`s Independent Television News.   For nearly 20 years he was a reporter, foreign correspondent and bureau chief for the flagship network news show `News at Ten`.  He also works as a regular Enrichment Lecturer for US based Crystal Cruises and writes on travel for the regional daily newspaper, the Western Daily Press.

Ken and his wife spend half the year in the Minervois where they are helping to develop their own small vineyard.
 

Please contact Ken at any time on his mobile 00 44 7802 466567 or via info@frenchwinetours.co.uk