Simon Piers Dominic Loftus, , is a British wine trader, restaurateur and writer on wine and travel. Following in his parents' footsteps, he joined the

Adnams Adnams is a regional brewery founded in 1872 in Southwold, Suffolk, England, by George and Ernest Adnams. It produces cask ale and bottled beers. Annual production is around 85,000 barrels. In 2010, the company established the Copper House di ...

brewery in Southwold in 1969 and rose to become chairman in 1995. He retired in 2006, the same year that he received an OBE.BBC News
/ref> Loftus is the author of several books including ''Anatomy of the Wine Trade'', ''Puligny-Montrachet: Journal of a Village in Burgundy'', and ''A Pike in the Basement''. ''Puligny-Montrachet'' won the Glenfiddich Award, while Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall said of ''Pike'': ''"a heartfelt, witty prescription for a life worth aspiring to."'' His latest book, out in April 2013, is ''The Invention of Memory: An Irish Family Scrapbook'' He is a descendant of the Irish-British businessman and politician

Pierse Loftus Pierse Creagh Loftus (29 November 1877 – 20 January 1956) was an Irish-born British businessman and Conservative Party politician. A notable figure in the public life of Lowestoft and East Suffolk for several decades, he sat in the House of Co ...

. He lives in

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

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