He had been dreaming about it since 2019 when he finished at the 3rd place of the competition in Antwerp, Raimonds Tomsons did it and became, on February 12th in Paris the 17th World's Best Sommelier. Although the French country, which organises the competition, came in large numbers to support its candidate Pascaline Lepeltier, it was on the 4th step that the sommelier lost out to the 3 finalists: Raimonds Tomsons, Best Sommelier of Europe 2017, Latvia, Nina Jensen, Denmark, both already finalists in the 2019 World Competition, and Reeze Choi, China. Candidates under pressure The ASI... Read more
Twelve countries, twenty-four candidates, a finalist from Malaysia and a third Japanese success in the fourth edition of this competition, these are some of the highlights of a contests whose level...
Sunday, November 11, during the EquipHotel trade fair, Pascaline Lepeltier won the competition of the Best Sommelier of France 2018, succeeding Gaëtan Bouvier, sommelier in Lyon, France. In...
In this country whose wine-making culture dates back over 8,000 years, delegates from 37 countries joined together to look at the first year of office of the association’s new president, Andres...
Pour la première fois depuis la création de ce concours international une sélection était organisée afin de désigner le représentant tricolore. Les concours, Mikael Grou les connaît sur le bout...
Sélectionnés le 10 septembre dernier à Paris, les cinq premiers de la demi-finale ont finalement été retenus pour la dernière étape du concours. Ils ont plusieurs semaines pour peaufiner leur...
Une journée d’intense compétition s’est tenue au restaurant Blue Room au sein de l’école des Arts et Technologie Culinaires de l’Institut Technologique de Dublin (DIT) le mercredi 7 mars. Des...