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Bob Wright
With over forty years in the drinks industry Bob has certainly served his time. The office wall, adorned with colourful WSET certificates awarded to staff over the years, has a faded black and white copy numbered barely over 2,000 - yet another reminder that our founder has been around a while!
As if to emphasise this 40 some years in the trade, Bob can produce price lists going back to the late 60's, 1970's and the 80's and the prices in there are quite unbelievable with Vintage Champagne a lot cheaper than Whisky.
Is this why the company stocks the rare and unusual products, like Punt e Mes, Fernet Branca, Lovage, Shrub and the modern Jägermeister? Sherry was all the rage when Bob was a lad so it is understandable we have over 15 sherries in stock - and surprisingly they sell.
Enough of this history stuff, what's the gaffer up to these days? Well, having recently sold the motorbike ‘cos the missus was not too keen, Bob is currently taking microlite flying lessons. We reckon for his 60th birthday he will probably be wing-walking! Is it any wonder you don't see him in the shop much these days?
Julian Kaye
Julian has been at The Wright Wine Company for nearly 20 years, after a stint working in various wine regions of France. Having been given a 50 year old whisky by Bob, instead of a pay rise, Julian was set on the path of becoming a whisky collector.
With a passion for whisky, and in recognition of his work with whisky, Julian was appointed a "Keeper of the Quaich" in 2005. A lover of whisky from Islay, the Kaye family are often dragged around the distilleries of Islay for their summer holidays. It is often joked that after naming his daughter, Isabel after the Marlborough New Zealand Sauvignon, that Mrs Kaye had to put her foot down, not to get their son called Ardbeg.
When he's not busy working in the shop in Skipton, he spends his time rearing rare breed chickens, fishing and shooting, and not to forget collecting whisky and drinking wine.
Katie Pinder
On leaving Blackburn College as a qualified Chef back in 1992 Katie was destined for the kitchens of various catering establishments in the Ribble Valley. Then moving to 'Front of House' and spending time in the Lake District and Guernsey she moved back to her roots near Clitheroe, on being appointed Retail Manager at the Wright Wine Company back in August 2005.
Turning her hand to the everyday, smooth running of the shop in Skipton, she can be found, five days out of six, serving and advising customers on both wine and whisky, dusting and stocking shelves, talking orders for Whisky and despatching it worldwide, or turning her hand to whatever job needs tackling.
Always enjoying foreign holidays when she can, other free time is spent going to the cinema, dog walking, cooking and going to the gym…not necessarily in that order!
Oh! and of course, drinking (lots /too much) wine and whisky.
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