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Double Dutch founders Joyce and Raissa De Haas
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Life Lessons with Double Dutch founders Joyce and Raissa De Haas

They went from producing homemade tonics as students to becoming award-winning entrepreneurs. The twins behind Double Dutch tell us of their ambitions to hire a minister for hospitality and to make a mandatory Friday cocktail hour...

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Ago Perrone
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Life Lessons with Ago Perrone of The Connaught Bar

The award-winning mixologist is a big Pierce Brosnan fan and an aspiring photograper – and he listens to Queen when he’s distilling gin…

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Leo Crabtree – perfumer, distiller and Prodigy drummer
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Life Lessons with Leo Crabtree – perfumer, distiller and drummer

He’s the rock-gothic inspiration behind BeauFort gin and rum and a range of exotic, steampunk perfumes – and it all started with moustache wax. The Prodigy drummer talks to Adam Lechmere about Land Rovers, literature, and the importance of being in bed by 10pm

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Sommelier Jan Konetzki holding a bottle of wine
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Life Lessons with sommelier-to-the-stars Jan Konetzki

He’s been crowned the UK’s best sommelier, he’s worked in the best restaurants and now advises A-listers on wine. But what Jan Konetzki really wants to do is host his own chat show, eat seafood in Porto and do a bit of skinny-dipping in Scotland…

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Eric Forget, Cellar Master at Hine Cognac
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Life Lessons with Eric Forget of Hine Cognac

Eric Forget, long-time cellar master at Hine Cognac, reveals himself to be a military man with a love of the great outdoors – and almost ended up on the other side of the world making red wine…

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Australian chef Josh Niland
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Life Lessons with Josh Niland of Sydney’s Saint Peter

Highly regarded Australian chef Josh Niland has rewritten the rulebook on fish cookery, but in another life he could have been opening the batting for the Baggy Greens…

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Life Lessons with Clement Robert MS of London’s Annabel’s

The much-decorated Master Sommelier overseas a wine list of thousands at Annabel's and its sister clubs – though the foundations for his love of wine were laid in the more modest surroundings of a camper van in a Loire vineyard

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Life Lessons with… Ciccio Sultano of Sicily’s two-starred restaurant Duomo

There's nothing he doesn't like about himself (though he wishes he'd known less as a 21-year-old) and he'd invite Alexander the Great to dinner. The irrepressible Ciccio Sultano, Sicily's greatest ambassador, gives us the benefit of his Life Lessons

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Jeremy Chan
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Life Lessons with Jeremy Chan of London’s Ikoyi restaurant

He loves Naples, cycling, Ayn Rand and Domino's pizza - and not necessarily in that order. Club Oenologique catches up with acclaimed chef Jeremy Chan as London restaurants re-open after a second lockdown

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Life Lessons with Gordon & MacPhail’s Michael Urquhart, IWSC President 2021

The new IWSC president has had a long and dynamic career which has included restoring a lost distillery and launching the oldest-ever single malt. Now he's more focused on his golf swing – among other things. Just don't tell him he's retired...

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