by dev855asiv2 | 7 Mar 2019 | ASI News
On February 3rd, after two days of competition involving fourteen Greek sommeliers and a guest sommelier from Cyprus, Aris-Iosif Sklavenitis was declared Best Sommelier of Greece 2019 by a jury featuring four presidents of national sommelier associations (Beata...
by dev855asiv2 | 7 Mar 2019 | ASI News
It was in front of a record crowd that Henrik Dahl Jahnsen won the 2019 Palmer Norwegian Sommelier Championship, after a set of tests that included wine pairings with Norwegian dishes, identifying a set of sweet wines, making cocktails and showing their knowledge of...
by dev855asiv2 | 7 Mar 2019 | ASI News
The United States marked a return to major international competitions with the Best USA Sommelier competition that took place on February 4 and 5 in Kansas City, organized by the Best USA Sommelier Association, a non-profit organization led by Doug Frost MS MW. Dustin...
by dev855asiv2 | 28 Feb 2019 | Gerard Basset
When Gérard was nearing the end of his life, we were able to have a short discussion on the phone about his book and the publishers I had suggested. Poor Gérard was in a lot of pain then and found it quite difficult to speak, but he was most anxious to know about the...
by dev855asiv2 | 28 Feb 2019 | Gerard Basset
In January 2013, I was invited to discover the wines of British Columbia and Ontario, in Canada, and I was lucky enough to be with Gérard on this wine trip. I’d known him professionally, before, but not personally. After this trip, we became quite close and worked...
