Bartholomew Broadbent

Bartholomew Broadbent (born 11 January 1962) is a British wine expert specializing in Port and Madeira.

He is the son of the wine critic Michael Broadbent and brother of Dame Emma Arbuthnot.

[1] In 1989, Broadbent pioneered the reintroduction of Madeira wine in the US which had effectively disappeared following Prohibition after being one of the most widely consumed alcoholic drinks.

[10] Broadbent set up the Dragon's Hollow in China's northern-central Ningxia Hui region which is the first internationally focused winery in China, and in South Africa he launched Vilafonte which was the first South African-American partnership in wine-making.

[13] Decanter magazine named him one of the “fifty most influential in the wine world…the faces to watch in the new millennium” in 1997.