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Thomson & Scott

Beautifully crafted wines and champagnes in collaboration with talented artists and photographers

Thomson & Scott search out beautifully crafted wines and champagnes.  In their exclusive collaborations with artists and photographers, the limited edition signed prints on the boxes perfectly complement the artisan wine. 

Amanda Thomson and Michael Scott spend months of the year meeting wine makers and tasting, tasting, tasting.  Their attention to detail is obsessional, so you can trust that whatever wine they bring you, the quality will not be in question. And the art simply enhances the drinking experience.

The pair hunt down stylish, innovative artists with shared high-end sensibilities; sensibilities shared not just with the wine makers, but importantly, with Amanda and Michael too. 

Originally from Houston, Texas, Michael Scott has had an international upbringing, schooled in Japan, Hong Kong and Vietnam. His initial love of wine was a happy accident. While in Singapore for a tax internship, he became interested in fine French wine through friends in the trade. This led him to study French language and more recently, Wine and Management in Paris, where he met his business partner, Amanda Thomson in 2011. Their one year Diploma at Le Cordon Bleu, Paris was taught in French and English under highly esteemed French wine professional, Franck Ramage.

Amanda Thomson is an English BBC journalist who worked for many years as an arts broadcaster. Her work in the film industry, specifically at the Cannes Film Festival, led to her developing a keen interest in champagne and later, wine. Amanda saw her move to Paris to study wine as an extension of her arts career, intertwining gastronomy and the arts world.

Amanda and Michael are strong believers in personal connections and while the internet is important to their business, ultimately they encourage all interested buyers to meet with them, talk with the wine makers and artists at their launches, and fall in love, not just with the wine itself, but also the story behind it, which will ultimately set it apart from being just another fine wine.

Thomson and Scott only deal with small quantities of wine and champagne, fuelled in essence by their choice of producer, who typically may make only a few thousand of each bottle. The French wine business remains – at least from a UK perspective – very traditional. Putting aside the wine as futures market, artisan producers have such small allocations of their wines that they can afford to be selective about who they sell to. This is where relationships become all important and Amanda and Michael operate on exactly the same premise.

To find out more about Thomson & Scott  and discuss their future tastings, please contact; Amanda amanda@thomsonandscott.com or Michael@thomsonandscott.com