by Claire MONNIER | 14 Apr 2021 | ASI News
Even as the sommellerie loves to honor tradition, working sommeliers spend their days (and nights!) addressing and accommodating an endless stream of new technologies. Winemaking methods, inventory and commercial tracking systems, even the very stemware used to serve...
by Claire MONNIER | 14 Apr 2021 | ASI News
After heading the Rhone Valley Wine Interprofessional laboratory, Stéphane Vidal joined Vinventions in 2007. Stéphane was first leading their global academic program to understand wine science and the influence of oxygen permeating through the closure on wine...
by Claire MONNIER | 14 Apr 2021 | ASI News
Manuel Negrete, 28, serves on the ASI Marketing Team as social media assistant and translator of the ASI newsletter into Spanish. He was also active in the Mexican Sommeliers Association during the Marcos Flores Tlalpan presidency (2016-2019), acting as their...
by Claire MONNIER | 14 Apr 2021 | ASI News
Robert Joseph has never been a sommelier — in the real meaning of the word, but he did serve wine in his parent’s restaurant in the south of England, which is where he fell under the spell of the product and learned to respect everyone involved in it....
by Claire MONNIER | 14 Apr 2021 | ASI News
While April is a popular month for milestones in ASI’s history, one in particular deserves special mention. It was 2010, Chile and Gérard Basset had just won the ASI World’s Best Sommelier Contest. Michèle Chantôme asked Nina Basset to share her memories with...
