We regret to inform that Mr Rhys Goodey is no longer working with Paris International Cooking School. Paris International Cooking School has not received any apologies from Mr Rhys Goodey. Paris International Cooking School is no longer working with Mr Rhys Goodey.
The following unmodified writing was provided by Mr Goodey. Paris International Cooking School does not warrant the accuracy of the contents below.
Rhys Goodey has been in the wine industry for over twenty years; he read law undergraduate and graduate at Cambridge University in England where he received his MA and LLM degrees 1974-80. During that time he belonged to college wine and fine dining clubs and met and attended the masterclasses of such doyens of wine as Cyril Ray, Michael Broadbent and Julian Jeffs QC. He has visited many vineyards in Cahors, Bordeaux, Burgundy, the Rhone Villages, Switzerland, Germany, Tuscany, Puglia, California, Australia and New Zealand and met leading winemakers and vineyard owners. He follows some of the world’s leading wine companies as a shareholder and keen visitor to international trade shows. He has been involved in a small amount of judging with the Australian Sommeliers‘ Association and with Len Evans and others in The Age Masterclasses in Melbourne.
Rhys began holding tutored tastings in 1987 and, the following year, set up Ark Wine Agencies to bring a selection of interesting wines and olive oils to the Australasian public. He now has extensive experience in talks on wine to corporate and other groups from Rotary and Probus to law firms. For a number of years he has with Laurent Villoing conducted very popular >Food and Wine Matching dinners at Paris International Cooking School.
He brings great satisfaction to his customers and pupils and enjoys seeing them happy by what they discover in wine. “Wine is luxurious by nature” he says, ”in a good sense; for the making of excellent wine must be the quest of every winemaker and very few activities in winemaking are at all easy. It is much the same as cooking or sports such as equestrian. Not everyone can win a gold medal at the Olympics but most of us, winemaker, merchant and wine drinker, can sharpen our skills, increase our expectations of wine, and achieve the ability to select better wines that go with the foods we love to share with our friends. And have many a laugh as we go!”
