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Following Latvian Raimonds Tomsons, it is now his Estonian neighbor who has claimed victory on the European stage. For France, the silver medal earned by Pascaline Lepeltier marks a return to the podium after seven years of absence. In the world of sommelier competitions, we must now get used to the rise of “meteors”. These are candidates who emerge from relative anonymity to disrupt the established order and overturn all predictions. Mikk Parre, the Estonian crowned in Belgrade, is one such figure. Much like Germany's Marc Almert, who won the 2019 World Championship, or Italy’s Salvatore... Read more
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Competition for Europe’s Best Sommelier 2008 Bulgaria (Sofia)Isa Bal conquers EuropeNow living in Great Britain, he entered the annals of history by becoming the winner of the first event of this...
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Séminar JapanAndreas Larsson’s Seminar in JapanAt the “World’s Best Sommelier” competition held in Rhodes, Greece in 2007, Andreas Larsson and Yoichi Sato (“Japan’s Best Sommelier” 2005) competed...
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A.SI. FranceOrder of Agricultural merit for Mr Kazuyoshi KogaiThe launch of events organised as part of the campaign ‘L’apéritif à la française’, which this year gave place of honour to Asia, was...
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Wine Bar BordeauxThe CIVB Wine Bar is two years old!25 000 customers and more than 32 000 glasses of wine served in 2007…Inaugurated in June 2006, the CIVB’s (Bordeaux Wine Trade Council) new Wine...
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Luxury Hotel BordeauxLe palace bordelais en pleine renaissanceIt was an event that marked the end of 2007 in Bordeaux… revealing its imposing neo-classic façade looking across to the Opera House,...
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Gastronomy AlsaceLa Verte Vallée,Munster’s three-star hotel-restaurantWhen Patricia and Yvon Gautier opened their 110-room hotel-restaurant in 1986 in Munster (Haut-Rhin), they already had major...