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
Aged 30, Quebecker joins his compatriots Ghislain Caron, Elyse Lambert and Véronique Rivest on the list of winners of a challenge that confirms the advent of North- and South-American sommeliers with...
Thirty-nine candidates participated in the selection organized in Paris, and although the favourites are among the semifinalists, some feminine surprises appear. They will all meet again on September...
In mid-November, Serbian Sommelier Association (SERSA) organized the 7th National Sommelier Competition in Belgrade and the winner was Vuk Vuletić, 26-year-old sommelier from Belgrade. Contest was...
On November 8 and 9, 2017 at Hotel Mondial, Tirana the championship “Albanian Best Sommelier 2017” was held. Nine Albanian sommeliers participated in this contest: Ersol Caco, Irdi Lushi, Aldiola...
Le 8 janvier dernier, quatre personnalités du monde britannique du vin se sont vues remettre l’Ordre du Mérite Agricole par l’Ambassadeur de France M. Jean-Pierre Jouyet. L’éminent sommelier,...
In Antwerp, he will participate for the 4th time in the world championship. A qualification he got after selection tests that brought together four other candidates in Paris. Like in Tokyo in 2013,...