Name: Constanzo Scala – Nationality: Italian – At the moment: UAE / Dubai Head of Wine for Zuma – the Middle East, Turkey & Asia Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? Well, I was always surrounded by wine as I was born in the Italian…
Name: Domenico Durante – Nationality: Italian – At the moment: Germany Maitrè/Sommelier @ Esszimmer by Käfer München Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? Did you have any particular mentors? My first encounter with wine was at a young age during my dad always gave me…
Name: Mr. Shahzad Talukder – Nationality: Germany – At the moment: Luxembourg – Chef Sommeliere – Lea Linster Restaurant Japanese Sake Judge at Mundus Vini Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? Any particular mentors at that time? I was a student of Bioinformatics at…
Name: Difan Xu – Nationality: Austrian – At the moment: Germany – Head Sommeliere – ZweiSinn Meiers | Bistro | Fine Dining Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? Any particular mentors at that time? That would be around the time during hospitality school…
Name: Marie Christin Baunach – Nationality: German – At the moment: Germany – Head Sommeliere Restaurant Überfahrt – Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? Any particular mentors at that time? I was born in the wine region Franconia in Germany, and from an…
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: Jürgen Fendt -Nationality: German -At the moment: Germany -Chef Sommelier / Winemaker -Own Website: https://fendtwein.de/ Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? Any particular mentors at that time? During my second trainee year I’ve got the first glass of wine which stayed in…
Name: Frank Schulte Nationality: German At the moment: Germany Sommelier Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? Any particular mentors at that time? My first contact with the wine industry was about 1986, when I took the opportunity to learn about hotel business in…
Name: Harald Wiesmann Nationality: German At the moment: Indonesia Chef Sommelier link: Harald Wiesmann Prerequisite: Please, tell us a little bit about your first encounter with wine & the wine industry? I was born in a town in the wine area of Franconia, so as a little boy already I stole grapes from vineyards.…