Oliver Dixon, Meet The Man Behind The Emirates’ High-Flying Cellar

Oliver Dixon could have easily ended up in France. He studied in Caen as part of an exchange programme with his university, and waited tables in Lyon. After university, he was, by his own admission, looking for an escape route out of the UK, convinced that the world was bigger than what his native land had to offer. France would turn out to just be the first step away. Despite his interest in beer, wine, and spirits, his first post-university work experience was a six-month stint for a small office carpeting business in Dubai, a city where his father had worked in oil in the 1980s. Back home,...