About me
and my team

I’ve spent my whole working life in wine, from wine making to running a flagship city wine merchant and now this - events, buying and selling wine and promoting good wine to everyone who fancies it …. My family were the first English family to buy a Chateau in Bordeaux in 1875, Chateau Loudenne, and if you cut me I think I’d bleed wine ….. in a good way of course.

We are a small and dynamic team of three. I personally buy every wine that we list. Freddie, my son, runs all our marketing and promotion and Charlotte (Charlie) is in charge of all our admin - full time and based in Cape Town.

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Meet Fred and Charlie

The Tom Gilbey team... Meet Fred and Charlie. Charlie's Tom's p.a. and takes care of the all important nitty gritty detail behind each and every wine event, and Freddie, Tom's son, who's created this website, produces the videos and much more.

Tom Gilbey Founder

Email: tom@tomgilbey.com

My lifelong mission has been to make wine more approachable, more fun and more widely appreciated. I love talking about wine, I love picking which wines I sell and I love interacting with everyone who is on their journey to loving wine as much as I do.

Freddie Gilbey Marketing & Outreach Manager


Email: fred@tomgilbey.com


Fred is my son but, much more importantly, he’s the man behind the camera. He’s has been instrumental in building our following and is the font of many a fun idea to make our events and communication as brilliant as they can be.

Charlie Thornton Tom's p.a. & Events Support

Phone: +44(0)20 8064 2241

Charlie is the woman who keeps the lights on whilst we're running around and being ridiculous. A completely dependable force of nature who keeps the t's crossed and the i's dotted.