Gerard Francis Claude Basset OBE, MS, MW, MBA, OIV MSc[1] (7 March 1957 – 16 January 2019[2]) was the owner of Hotel TerraVina, a New Forest Hotel near Southampton in Hampshire, United Kingdom.
[9] He was subsequently ranked in 2nd place in the World's Best Sommelier Competition on three occasions,[10][11] until he won the title upon his sixth attempt in 2010.
[13] In 2007, Basset opened Hotel TerraVina in the New Forest near Southampton with his wife Nina.
Hotel TerraVina closed at the end of February 2018 and reopened on 5 March as kitchen café, deli and boutique B&B, Spot in the Woods.
[6] Basset was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to the hospitality industry,[15] and selected as the Decanter 2013 Man of the Year.