Inside Ludlow Castle: with local food & drink producers, talks & demos, Live Fire Stage, trails and kids’ activities.
Fiona Beckett
Where: Castle Garden Stage - Castle Gardens
Fiona is an award-winning food and wine writer, one of the world's leading experts on food and drink matching, wine columnist for 'The Guardian,' and the author of 25 books on food, wine, beer and alcohol-free drinks.
She has been a regular contributor to many other national newspapers with weekly columns for The Times and the Daily Mail and to leading food, drink and lifestyle magazines including BBC Good Food, and Delicious. She is also a contributing editor to the wine magazine Decanter, wine correspondent for National Geographic Traveller Food, and a contributor to Club Oenologique.
She was nominated Rioja Communicator of the Year award in 2019 and has recently been shortlisted for the Drinks Book and Drink Writer categories of the 2021 Guild of Food Writer awards and 2021 Fortnum & Mason awards and was also shortlisted for the IWSC Communicator of the year award in 2019.
A regular speaker and chair at industry and consumer events both in the UK and internationally. She has been a judge for many prestigious food and drink awards including the BBC Food & Farming Awards, Fortnum and Mason awards and the Andre Simon book award.
She also hosts tastings, dinners and workshops on food and wine pairing in destinations as far apart as Dartmouth and Delhi, and appears regularly at food festivals.