After an initial foray into the wine business, Tom decided to pursue a more reliable, respectable trade; he became a professional jazz musician. Wine was never far behind, though, and he founded the website Six Atmospheres after the sparkling wine bug started biting especially hard. Rather than taking a purely regional focus, Tom follows the craft of sparkling wine wherever it leads. His publication ‘English Sparkling Wine 2020’ remains one of the widest independent wine-by-wine surveys to date, with future updates planned. Tom manages a small non-commercial vineyard in Kent (having once come dangerously close to being left in charge of a commercial one), and maintains an unhealthy interest in the inner workings of grape vines and wineries. He continues his career as a musician whilst trying to get better at reading, writing and drinking.