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Winners announced for Young Chef and Young Sommelier of the Year 2023

15 May 2023 by

The Chaîne des Rôtisseurs GB Young Professional Awards 2023 crowned Maciej Pisarek of the Savoy, London, as Young Chef of the Year, and Melania Battiston of Medlar, London, as Young Sommelier of the Year.

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Entries open for the Taittinger UK Sommelier of the Year 2023

14 March 2023 by

The search is on for the Taittinger UK Sommelier of the Year 2023, as entries open for the awards that recognise the finest talent in wine service.

Winners announced for the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs GB Young Professional Awards 2022 News

Winners announced for the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs GB Young Professional Awards 2022

23 May 2022 by
Tasting notes with Emma Denney, assistant head sommelier at the Clove Club Pub & Bar

Tasting notes with Emma Denney, assistant head sommelier at the Clove Club

18 May 2022 by
Finalists announced for 2022 Taittinger UK Sommelier of the Year News

Finalists announced for 2022 Taittinger UK Sommelier of the Year

29 April 2022 by
One week left to enter the Taittinger UK Sommelier of the Year 2022 News

One week left to enter the Taittinger UK Sommelier of the Year 2022

15 March 2022 by

Free wine service webinar taking place next week News

Free wine service webinar taking place next week

08 March 2022 by

A panel of front of house experts will be sharing their expertise on the best way[...]

Entries open for the Taittinger 2022 Sommelier of the Year News

Entries open for the Taittinger 2022 Sommelier of the Year

10 February 2022 by

The hunt is on for the Taittinger UK Sommelier of the Year 2022, as entries open[...]

Robin Hutson says the future is in English wine, so get planting In-Depth

Robin Hutson says the future is in English wine, so get planting

22 June 2021 by

English wines are booming in popularity, so it will pay – eventually – to plant a[...]

Cabotte founders partner with Galvin brothers to launch sommelier club News

Cabotte founders partner with Galvin brothers to launch sommelier club

03 June 2021 by

Cabotte co-founders Xavier Rousset and Gearoid Devaney are partnering with chef-restaurateurs Chris and Jeff Galvin to[...]

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The London Wine Fair announces preview date ahead of sector's reopening

This year's London Wine will feature a preview day for the first time in the event's 40-year history."

23 March 2021 by
Profiles

Minute on the clock: Becky Cummings, Copper & Ink

30 October 2020
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The co-owner of Copper & Ink restaurant in Blackheath, south London, reveals what qualities she looks for in a wine and how guests’ spending habits have changed since lockdown.

Book review: Wines & Recipes, by Raul Diaz Chef

Book review: Wines & Recipes, by Raul Diaz

29 October 2020
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Sommelier Raul Diaz has worked in the wine trade for 15 years. He teaches Wine & Spirit Education Trust courses at the Corinthia London through his Wine Training School, and is the UK ambassador for VDP German wines.

WSET increases online courses after seeing ‘explosion’ in digital learning News

WSET increases online courses after seeing ‘explosion’ in digital learning

16 April 2020 by

The Wine & Spirits Education Trust (WSET) is fast tracking plans to take all its qualifications[...]

Book review: Tasting Victory by Gerard Basset People

Book review: Tasting Victory by Gerard Basset

02 April 2020 by

I always knew the late Gerard Basset was special. But reading his newly published autobiography, written[...]

Book extract: Tasting Victory by Gerard Basset People

Book extract: Tasting Victory by Gerard Basset

02 April 2020 by

Fourteen months after the untimely death of Gerard Basset at the age of 61, an autobiography[...]

Minute on the clock: Terri Dell Profiles

Minute on the clock: Terri Dell

20 March 2020 by

Terri Dell is the general manager of Brookmans Park in Hertfordshire, part of Peach Pubs. She[...]

People

Tasting notes: Jenny Pagoni, founder of Ampéli

The founder of Ampéli, an Eastern Mediterranean-inspired restaurant in Fitzrovia that serves exclusively Greek wines, on how she steers customers to unknown terroirs "

13 March 2020 by
Lise Donier-Meroz of L’Enclume wins inaugural Gerard Basset Travel Scholarship News

Lise Donier-Meroz of L’Enclume wins inaugural Gerard Basset Travel Scholarship

04 February 2020
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Lise Donier-Meroz, sommelier at Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume in the Lake District, has been named as the winner of the inaugural Gerard Basset Travel Scholarship.

Shortlist for inaugural Gerard Basset Travel Scholarship revealed News

Shortlist for inaugural Gerard Basset Travel Scholarship revealed

29 January 2020
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The four sommeliers shortlisted for the inaugural Gerard Basset Travel Scholarship have been revealed.

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