Jury 2025

Commercial Director at Vaziani Company LTD.

International wine judge, Georgian Wine Ambassador.

Award-winning Italian journalist and wine critic based in Milan, editor-in-chief of Winemag.it – one of the most widely read Italian wine magazines – and contributor to Wine-Searcher. He is a judge and panel chair in some of Europe’s leading international wine competitions. He has been involved in the selection of Eastern-Europe wine of a leading importer in Italy. Davide is known in Europe for his pragmatic, innovative, out-of-the-box approach and his independence as a journalist and wine critic.

Master of Wine (since 2020) holds also an BSc in hospitality management and an MBA. After a career as a sommelier with award of the best restaurant wine list in Finland 1999 and completing his WSET Diploma in 2003, he worked in sales and product management positions at various wine importers in Finland. Pasi has partner and board member experience and has consulted in an advisory role on strategy, customer relationship management and start-up company development. He has also represented Finland in Nordic sommelier championships and international blind tasting competitions. in 2019 started as the commercial director at Viinitie Oy.

Engineer. Graduate of the Faculty of Horticulture at USAMV Bucharest, graduate of the Master’s program in Vitivinicultural Performance Technologies, Management and Marketing. Ph.D. student – currently at the same university in the winemaking sector. Technical Director and Oenologist at Pietroasa Research Station.

Graduated from the Faculty of Law of Prague Charles´ University in 1982 with an MBA degree (Public Relations and Marketing Communication) earned in 2012. He is a member in good standing of the Czech Journalists Syndicate, American Wine Society, American Association of Wine Economists, and secretary of the WAWWJ Journalists Association for Europe. Editor-in-chief of the Czech SOMMELIER Magazine / Revue for Hotel and Restaurant from 2002 until 2022. Laureate of the annual PRIX de l´OIV (Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin, based in Paris) for the best book of the year 2014 in the field of wine economics – monography Public Relations and Marketing Communication in the Wine Business (B SMART IN WINE PR), Radix 2014. Author of the Czech digital publication NEW NORMAL or How to Survive a Pandemic with Honour and How to Turn a Coronacrisis into an Opportunity (2021) and lead author and editor of the global e-Book NEW NORMAL IN THE WINE BUSINESS (Or How To Survive Covid From An Economic Perspective While Holding On To Your Dignity And How Can This Coronacrisis Be Turned Into An Opportunity?), to help wine producers and merchants (2021).

Has a specialization in Physical-Chemical Analysis Laboratory Techniques. In 2011, she finished the Environmental Engineering degree. She has a Master’s in Viticulture and Enology Engineering / Vinifera Euromaster, from Instituto Superior de Agronomia (University of Lisbon). In 2012 she founded the winery project “Casal Martins”, where until today, in addition to management, she performs technical tasks in oenology. She is also a trainer and teacher. With a strong activity in the Associação dos Escanções de Portugal (national Sommelier Association), she is an official taster of the Tasting Board in the Tejo Region Certification Wine Entity.