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 - accidental Instagram sensation, marathon-runner, and now author.
I've been running events, buying and selling wine and promoting good wine to everyone who fancies it; wine should be about joy, not jargon.
My mission has always been simple: to get you drinking better wine without needing to remortgage their house.
We are a small and dynamic team. Aside from myself, Freddie, my son, runs all our marketing and promotion, typically bossing me about and telling me to do something foolish, 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.
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.
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.
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.