Educating Sommeliers Worldwide.
By Beverage Trade Network
Interviews
Matteo Montone MS: Becoming a Master Sommelier in the midst of a global pandemic
As the UK enters its third national lockdown, we caught up with Montone to talk about his strategy to achieve the MS title, balancing studies and parenting and the importance of the sommelier profession in the post-pandemic world.
Operations and Management
Troubleshooting Tips for Challenging Wine Situations
How to approach difficult guests and turn around their experience without a hitch.
Menu Intel
Sommelier Insights: How to pair wine with vegan food
“In the past few years, vegan food has grown so much in terms of creating different textures. That’s crucial when you pair with wine" - Hristian Iliev
Suppliers Spotlight
Pure the Winery: Zero Sugar, Zero Carbs Wines for your restaurants
They are a team of passionate wine lovers and to be recognized by expert sommeliers for the quality of the wine motivates us to bring Pure the Winery to more restaurants world wide for consumers to enjoy a PURE Zero Sugar wine.
Suppliers Spotlight
Bodegas Ontanon - Spanish Winery that Sommeliers must include in wine lists
The winery brought home the highest numbers of gold medals in spain and also scored the top score among other spanish wineries at the 2020 Sommeliers Choice Awards that happened in USA this year.
Interviews
In Conversation with Patrice Hewski, Beverage Manager at Commonwealth National Golf Club
"The most important attribute for a sommelier is being humble," says Patrice Hewski.
Wine Technical
Development of Sugars, Acids, Aromatics, and Berry Color & Weight During Ripening
Ripeness at picking is an important concept to grasp in order to unlock key information from wine tasting.
Interviews
Karen MacNeil: How to Write About Wine
The author of the bestselling wine book talks about how one can champion writing with a much broader view of wine.
