Le Verre Gourmand consists of a glasses-wearing French-speaking Englishman and a glasses-wearing English-speaking Frenchman. It's quite a good balance, really...

Sam Owens

Having run his own catered chalet in Chamonix since 2003, Sam reckoned there was a big gap in the market to supply decent wine to the British-run chalet sector in the Alps. Having been a bit of a wine nut since university, this was the perfect opportunity to indulge his habit, er, passion.

Roch Braillon

Having worked with Sam for a ski website a few years ago, Roch had since tumbled into the wine industry (as you do). Based down in Montpellier, he couldn't resist the opportunity to combine wine and skiing. Et voila, Bob's ton oncle...