Date an MW: 1981
Based in: UK
Profession: QA/QC
Self-employed
Nursery House, Top Street, Askham
Newark
Nottinghamshire
NG22 0RP
England
Music - playing the organ and directing a choir. Gardening - our garden is open once a year for the National Gardens Scheme; photography; cooking
David Bird trained as an analytical chemist and entered the food manufacturing business as an analyst working with baby foods, mustard and fruit squashes. He moved into the wine trade in 1973 almost by chance, but in reality because a passion for wine was already developing.
1981 was his vintage year, becoming a Master of Wine, a Chartered Chemist and father to his first son. He specialises in quality assurance techniques, such as ISO 9000 and Hazard Analysis, and has been involved with wine activities in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, Algeria, Australia, Scotland, Ireland and England.