Abbie Bennington DipWSET is a wine journalist, educator and judge. She has been working in the wine industry for more than 15 years after leaving the BBC News at Ten. She worked as a senior producer in politics and global news.
Abbie is chair of the Association of Wine Educators, holds the Diploma in Wine and Spirits and is a certified WSET Educator, teaching the advanced level 3. She is also an accredited tutor for Bordeaux (CIVB), a Rioja educator (Consejo Regulador DOCa) and an advanced Cava specialist (DO Cava).
She owns her own tasting and wine business, ABVTastings. In addition to running tasting events, judging at wine and spirit competitions (IWC amongst others), Abbie writes and travels regularly to wine regions to conduct interviews for prominent industry publications.
