Meet our team
Our experts are on hand to give you wine advice.
Sotheby's for 23 years, initially as a picture expert and increasingly in management, finishing as Deputy Managing Director of Sotheby's Europe. In the 1990s he became increasingly obsessed by wine and began travelling to taste, learn, and meet wine producers in France, South Africa and California. It was a natural (but financially insane) step in 2002 to dump the Bond Street office, lovely PA, expense account and business class flights, for a chicken-shed in Hampshire, and budget travel from Stansted. The compensation for him is standing in a vineyard, from the Languedoc to Argentina, and simply enjoying the soil, the land and the weather.
Happily married, with three great grown up children (one of whom has ignored his advice not to enter the wine trade), two black labrador bitches, Simon also enjoys the ups and downs of supporting the Saints.
After working in the wine trade in London Alistair made the move to Hampshire in 2014. Having succumbed to the 4hr commute his natural progression was to the 20-minute commute and joined SVS in 2015. Loves all things Bordeaux, Burgundy and Rhone, but he is now being seduced by the wines of South America and Italy. Happily married with a son, a grumpy old cat, exuberant labrador, chickens and pigs; he lives in the Meon Valley.
Every wine merchant needs a Liza in accounts. Liza has been here since 2005 and keeps the cogs of SVS running smoothly. Her desert island wine is our very own Drusian Prosecco
Michael has joined the Stone, Vine and Sun team after seven years working in the wine industry with Majestic. His love for wine was developed on numerous family holidays to the vineyards of Southern France. His tastes now are much wider and he has a particular passion for all wines Spanish and South African. That said, when pushed his favourite wine would be French in the form of a mature Left Bank Bordeaux. When not selling and tasting wine, Michael can be found with his wife attempting to train their Labrador puppy in rural Hampshire.
Lauren joined us in 2017 from Majestic. Married with three children and one chicken. An avid tennis player and social media guru.