The Awards The "Tim Derouet Award" is made to an outstanding candidate who has passed the Master of Wine Examination. The "Geoffrey Jameson Award" is made to the most promising young graduate who has passed the WSET Diploma examination

The Tim Derouet Award is made to an outstanding candidate who has passed the Master of Wine Examination. It is awarded only in years when the Examiners consider there has been an exceptional performance across all papers. The award is worth £3000, and provides funds to let the winner travel to a wine region of their choice, ideally an area they have not previously visited. The only request that the trustees make is that the winner produces on their return a report on where they have been and what they have seen. The award is in memory of Tim Derouet, who died in 1975. He was one of the wine trade’s larger-than-life characters. Within a career that spanned nearly 40 years, he left a lasting memory amongst those who knew him as a happy and generous man who put enormous effort into encouraging younger people to come into the trade and share what he enjoyed so much. The first award was made in 1979. A full list of those who have won the award is attached. ...ooo000ooo... The Geoffrey Jameson Award is made to the most promising young graduate who has passed the WSET Diploma examination, to assist them in furthering their wine trade career, specifically in studying towards the MW qualification. 3 candidates will be selected and then interviewed by members of the Geoffrey Jameson Trust. An award of £2,500 towards the cost of the Master of Wine study course will be provided to the student who impresses the panel with their career plans and potential, and who they deem to be worthy of funding. The student winning this award will be within the top 5% achievers in the whole Diploma qualification The Award was set up in 1997 in memory of Geoffrey Jameson and is administered within the same charity as the Tim Derouet Award (the two were great friends and Geoffrey helped inaugurate the Tim Derouet Award). Geoffrey Jameson entered the wine trade at the end of the war and was for many years Managing Director of Justerini and Brooks. He was one of the first five Masters of Wine and later Chairman of the Institute of Masters of Wine. He was Master of the Worshipful Company of Vintners in 1980/81 and Clerk to the Royal Cellars from 1964 to 1979. The Award reflects the enthusiasm with which he used to encourage younger people in the wine trade to expand their knowledge of wine.