His father, Walter Schuster, farmed at Ol Magogo, North Kinangop, prior to the Emergency during which he commanded Support Company in the Kenya Regiment, and was 2i/c under Charles Madden for the last year of the Emergency in 1956. He was invited to join the administration after the Mau Mau and was DO Pumwani / Starehe from 1956-59, when he moved to Isiolo. He died at the end of 1962, aged 47.
During the four years in Nairobi they lived in a fine bungalow just below The Coryndon Museum. The Curator at that time was Norman Mitton, whose two children were Ann and Christopher whom, of course, they knew fairly well.
Michael would like to make contact with Ann Mitton.
Her father taught him, as a 9 / 10 year old boy, a great deal about snakes in which he was already greatly interested. He used to be with him, in his holoidays, when he made plaster casts of dead specimens, and enjoyed watching him set up the snake park in its very early days. At the same time as he introduced live monitor lizards to the ‘outside’ area at the centre of the building, which he remember them trashing regularly with their tails!
Michael Schuster is acknowledged internationally as an expert wine taster, wine writer and wine teacher with over 25 years experience. He studied tasting in Bordeaux, where he gained the University Tasting Diploma, and in the early eighties he was instrumental in creating an award-winning wine retail business. Since 1986 he has worked independently as a writer and lecturer, and run his own wine school in north London. In 2002 he was elected to the Academie Internationale du Vin.
He is a regular contributor to The World of Fine Wine, writing their annual Bordeaux en primeur report, and an occasional contributor to Decanter Magazine.
Michael Schuster is acknowledged internationally as an expert wine taster, wine writer and wine teacher with over 25 years experience. He studied tasting in Bordeaux, where he gained the University Tasting Diploma, and in the early eighties he was instrumental in creating an award-winning wine retail business. Since 1986 he has worked independently as a writer and lecturer, and run his own wine school in north London. In 2002 he was elected to the Academie Internationale du Vin.
He is a regular contributor to The World of Fine Wine, writing their annual Bordeaux en primeur report, and an occasional contributor to Decanter Magazine.