by dev855asiv2 | 28 Feb 2019 | Gerard Basset
Gérard has always been special to me. We first met in the late eighties and our paths crossed a few time until I really got to know him when he won the Champagne Ruinart UK Sommelier of the Year in 1992. From that moment, I discovered his fighting spirit. He could not...
by dev855asiv2 | 28 Feb 2019 | Gerard Basset
I have lost my mentor, friend, confidant and spiritual father. I had known Gérard for 20 years. I think about what always impressed me, with Gégé, was the way he would tell or explain things. When I was preparing for competitions, he was always sacrificing his time to...
by dev855asiv2 | 31 Jan 2019 | ASI News
Ivan Jug – Best Sommelier of Croatia 2018 Ivan is a sommelier, manager and co-owner at Zagreb restaurant Noel. Even though he was professionally trained as a chef, he has ben working as a sommelier since 2009. He likes to say that it wasn’t a choice, it just happened...
by dev855asiv2 | 31 Jan 2019 | ASI News
Austria Andreas Jechsmayr, an Upper Austria native who works as a sommelier at the Landhotel Forsthof in Sierning, captured the title of Best Sommelier of Austria on November 5, 2018, in front of some 200 people. Jechsmayr, who has been competing in national and...
by dev855asiv2 | 31 Jan 2019 | ASI News
ASI has made a significant change to the ASI Sommelier Diploma that will make it more accessible to sommeliers around the world. Starting this year there will be three levels to the Diploma: Bronze, Silver and Gold. Up to now, sommeliers had to take their exam in a...
