by dev855asiv2 | 28 Feb 2019 | ASI News, Press releases
We had known it was bound to happen, even if we ignored it and hoped for a miracle. Still, it struck us as a thunderbolt. It is bizarre how you can see things coming for so long and still be shocked when they hit you – like a rabbit frozen in the headlights....
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 | 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...
