by dev855asiv2 | 24 Mar 2019 | ASI News
For one winner, in this latest Best Sommelier of the World contest, there are 65 candidates who don’t make it there. Impressions and reactions from the semi-finalists and other candidates are quite a mix, from thrill to disappointment. But everyone who participated...
by dev855asiv2 | 24 Mar 2019 | ASI News, BSOW19, Contests, Press releases
2019 ASI Best Sommelier of the World The audience of over 1,000 people cheered, laughed and applauded loudly during a stellar performance by Marc Almert, the candidate from Germany and sommelier at the Baur au Lac Hotel in Zurich, Switzerland, as he went through test...
by dev855asiv2 | 24 Mar 2019 | ASI News, BSOW19
On Friday, March 15, after a week of highly demanding, hotly disputed competition in Antwerp, Belgium, a young man of 27, Marc Almert, from Germany, became the 16th person in the world to hold the title of Best Sommelier of the World. In the finals, he was joined by...
by dev855asiv2 | 7 Mar 2019 | ASI News
Pascaline Lepeltier – Best Sommelier of France 2018 Pascaline Lepeltier still has trouble believing that she is Best sommelier of France. But indeed, she is! Right after graduating with a Master’s degree in Philosophy, she celebrated with a glass of wine that revealed...
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...
