Name: Edmund Liew – Nationality: Malaysian At the moment: Finland Wine Director Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? Did you have any particular mentors? I started to be more actively involved in the wine business in 2006 in a wine bar called Vintry…
Name: Dorianne Neimard Nationality: French At the moment: London Wine Manager Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? Any particular mentors at that time? I was about 18 years old I was in Alsace and I tried some Riesling and some vendanges Tardives Gewürztraminer…
Name: Anne Krebiehl Nationality: German At the moment: London Master of Wine, Wine Writer & Lecturer Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? Any particular mentors at that time? I came into the wine world as a kind of ‘refugee’ from a different career:…
Name: Romana Echensperger Nationality: German At the moment: Germany Master of Wine – Wine Consultant and Journalist Interesting link: click Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? Any particular mentors at that time? It all started with my apprenticeship at Königshof Hotel in Munich.…
Name: Loïk Tavernier Nationality: French At the moment: Switzerland (Suisse) Chef sommelier, Sales Manager Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? Anyparticular mentors at that time? I got my sommelier diploma in 2002 and I started my career in the five star hotel Dromoland Castle in…
Name: Anne McHale – Nationality: British – At the moment: UK – Master of Wine – Wine Consultant & Educator – Interesting link: click or on linkedin: click Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? Any particular mentors at that time? My love of…
Name: Yanna Deliere President – Association Suisse Des Sommeliers Professionnels-ASSP Nationality: French At the moment: Switzerland (Suisse) Own Website: Le Journal du Sommelier at click Facebook: click Linkedin: click Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? Did you have any particular mentors? I…
Name: Gaetano Giangaspero Nationality: Italian At the moment: United Kingdom Head Sommelier Personal: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? Did you have any particular mentors? My family used to manage some vineyards around the North West of Bari in the Puglia region in Italy.…
Name: Ned Goodwin Nationality: British At the moment: Australia Master of Wine – Commentator / Presenter / Writer / Critic / Educator with an Opinion Interesting link about Wine Diamonds: click Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry?Any particular mentors at that time? No,…
Name: Bikram Gautam Nationality: Nepalese At the moment: UAE-Dubai Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? Any particular mentors at that time? After my hotel management study I started my Internship in a hotel in Dubai there I learned some basics of wine…