On Wednesday, February 12, 2025, the Wine Paris exhibition hosted the semi-final of the Union de la Sommellerie Française's competition for the Best Young Sommelier of France. After rigorous challenges, Louis Le Conte (Beau Rivage Palace Lausanne), Augustin Belleville (Pavyllon Paris), and Noé Richard (Plénitude Paris) brilliantly secured their spots in the final! Eighty-seven candidates from hospitality schools across France (Lyon, Grenoble, Strasbourg, La Rochelle, Marseille, Paris, Reims, Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Tours) competed in the last selection round on Monday, January 13. From... Read more
No inflation in the Best Sommelier of the World competition. The proof, if 19 candidates had been selected for the semi-final in Antwerp, this year in Paris they will only be 17 while the number of...
Four sommeliers present in Paris received the golden cluster on the evening of the final of the competition won by Xavier Thuizat. Daniel Pirès (Champagne Ardennes - cellar creation in progress),...
As expected, COET-MOF and the Ministry of National Education waited until November 17 to announce the results of the sommelier class in the one of the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France (MOF) competition...
The members of the Union de la Sommellerie Française technical committee are obviously the only ones who know the results of the competition, and they are the only ones who can say if the visual...
Although they completed the One of the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France competition with the traditional service test, which awards almost a third of the maximum score, the eight candidates have now been...
Mikael Grou (Le chat botté* - Hôtel Beau Rivage in Geneva), Xavier Thuizat (L'Ecrin* - Hôtel de Crillon in Paris) and Pierre Vila Palleja (Le petit sommelier in Paris) are the three finalists for...