Jamie Harrison is a family doctor in Durham, UK. Whilst working as a trainee GP in Bristol in 1980 he discovered wine, a passion (and obsession) which has continued and developed ever since. Encouraged by visits to John Harvey and Sons, Avery’s, and Oddbins Wine Merchants, he started a simple cellar at a time when great wines were almost still affordable. He still has the odd 1976 Mosel Riesling from that era.
A subsequent move to East Anglia opened up the joys of Adnams and Lay and Wheeler, and a new medical practice in Durham in 1990 meant becoming Wine Member for St John’s College Senior Common Room. Sebastian Payne kindly did a tasting and a new love affair with The Wine Society began. Too much wine in the cellar led to productive contact with new friends at Farr Vintners, so one way or another, wine began to vie with medicine as an academic and life-enhancing pursuit.
Durham also opened up a friendship with the wine writer and expert taster Helen Savage. Her annual wine holidays linked to her wine class proved irresistible, not least latterly in helping to plan and lead them. This relationship led to the founding in the summer of 2007 of Vine Visit Limited, a specialist wine tour business. Vine Visit launched in November 2007, offering a range of 4 and 7 night trips to vineyards and growers, predominantly in France, Germany and Spain initially, but branching out to include the rest of the wine world from 2009.
Jamie Harrison has published widely - on the careers of young doctors (GP Tomorrow), clinical governance (Clinical Governance in Primary Care), the NHS (The New GP) and the importance of trust in medicine (Rebuilding Trust in Healthcare), but this website will focus on wine, with only the occasional sop to medicine.
A subsequent move to East Anglia opened up the joys of Adnams and Lay and Wheeler, and a new medical practice in Durham in 1990 meant becoming Wine Member for St John’s College Senior Common Room. Sebastian Payne kindly did a tasting and a new love affair with The Wine Society began. Too much wine in the cellar led to productive contact with new friends at Farr Vintners, so one way or another, wine began to vie with medicine as an academic and life-enhancing pursuit.
Durham also opened up a friendship with the wine writer and expert taster Helen Savage. Her annual wine holidays linked to her wine class proved irresistible, not least latterly in helping to plan and lead them. This relationship led to the founding in the summer of 2007 of Vine Visit Limited, a specialist wine tour business. Vine Visit launched in November 2007, offering a range of 4 and 7 night trips to vineyards and growers, predominantly in France, Germany and Spain initially, but branching out to include the rest of the wine world from 2009.
Jamie Harrison has published widely - on the careers of young doctors (GP Tomorrow), clinical governance (Clinical Governance in Primary Care), the NHS (The New GP) and the importance of trust in medicine (Rebuilding Trust in Healthcare), but this website will focus on wine, with only the occasional sop to medicine.