by dev855asiv2 | 19 Dec 2020 | ASI News
2020 posed unprecedented challenges to the organizers of the ASI General Assembly. It was necessary to walk a tightrope between practical restrictions, including formal and informal bans on international travel, and fulfilling legal obligations and preserving a...
by dev855asiv2 | 19 Dec 2020 | ASI News
Dear Friends and Colleagues around the World, 2020 has pushed us all to rethink, reconsider, and react. And through it all, sommeliers everywhere have risen to the challenge. We have lent a helping hand to those in need and pushed ourselves to achieve greater mastery...
by dev855asiv2 | 17 Nov 2020 | Homepage, Press releases
William Wouters elected president of ASI, the Association de la Sommellerie Internationale 17 Nov 2020. William Wouters of Belgium has been elected the new president of the Association de la Sommellerie Internationale. The vote was held as part of the organization’s...
by dev855asiv2 | 12 Nov 2020 | ASI News
While Germany has weathered the pandemic almost as well as any country in the world, the country’s government has nevertheless declared that the nation’s restaurants must stop in-house service for the duration of November to try to stem the tide of the disease. The...
by dev855asiv2 | 12 Nov 2020 | ASI Newsletter
“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: ‘And this, too, shall pass away.’ How much it expresses! How...
