Pip Martin

Pip Martin is the founder of The Tasting Quarter and has dedicated his entire career to the food and drink industry. He began as a food & beverage manager at the 5-star Boca Raton Resort & Club in the USA, before moving into management roles in London’s high-end food and wine retail scene, where he oversaw teams and looked after some of the largest and most extensive wine and spirits ranges in the capital.

Pip later became Corporate Events Manager at Richard Branson’s UK-based online wine merchant, Virgin Wines. During his time at Virgin, in little over 15 months, he organised and hosted over 200 wine events for Virgin’s corporate clients, including the BBC, Morgan Stanley, PricewaterhouseCoopers and JP Morgan.

Pip’s international work has included hosting and co-hosting tastings in South Africa, Dubai, Morocco, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark, Finland and Switzerland. He has run virtual, hybrid and AI augmented tastings for companies including AVMI and Oracle. His media work has included wine presenting on Sky One’s Taste programme and BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen. Writing credits include wine articles for Condé Nast’s Gourmet Travel and Esquire.