Commercial wine consultant – On Trade/Hospitality specialist, with 33 years industry experience across all channels of trade. Long-standing Senior Judge at IWC, plus IWC industry awards judge. Regular speaker at wine industry events and mentor to various within the wider industry.

Julia’s wine trade career spans many years including time as Senior Buyer for Booker Cash & Carry and Marketing for Sainsbury’s wine department. For the last 20 years she was owner and director of award-winning Flagship Wines and has been judging at IWC for many years. She is delighted to join the panel of judges for this year’s Industry Awards.

Helen is the author of The Knackered Mother’s Wine Club, an award-winning wine blog and best-selling wine book. She spent almost a decade sourcing wines around the world as a wine buyer for Tesco, then spent the next half-decade pregnant. Married with three children, she writes a weekly drinks column for the Daily Mail’s Femail magazine and has been the resident wine expert on ITV’s The Alan Titchmarsh Show. Her latest book, Teetotal Tipples, was published in December 2016 and her third book is due out in the Autumn. Awards include Fortnum & Mason’s Online Drink Writer of the Year and Red Magazine’s Best Blogger.

Steve has spent over 15 years as a Category Director, over 10 of which were as BWS Category Director, the last 5 years at Asda and previously over 5 years at Morrisons. It was during Steve’s time at Morrisons that they won IWC wine retailer of the year in 2015 and again in 2016. Since leaving Asda in November last year Steve has set up his own business Three Sixty fmcg where he provides consultancy to a number of food and drink businesses as well as acting as an advisor to some start up businesses.

Angela Mount is a wine writer, presenter and consultant, who was previously head of wine buying for Somerfield supermarkets, where her taste buds were famously insured for £10million. She set up her own business, Angela Mount Associates Ltd, seven years ago; Angela works with a number of major wine producers throughout the world, helping them develop their Uk strategy and wine styles. she is the wine writer for several consumer publications, and is a regular contributor to Harpers Wine & Spirit . She has been judging at the International Wine Challenge for many years. She also consults on a number of restaurant wine lists and is chair judge for both the Bristol and the Bath Good Food Awards.