Professional Sommelier (Italian Sommelier Assoc.) President of OSR 2011 -Romanian Sommeliers Organization.
Jury 2025
FIJEV member. Budapest-based journalist and wine writer. In 2015 cofounded the online wine magazine WineSofa, which writes about Central and Eastern European wines, gastronomy and touristic opportunities. He is co-author of the Hungarian-language ‘Great Hungarian Wine Atlas’ and numerous other books on wine, and as Editor-in-Chief of WineSofa is constantly travelling Central and Eastern Europe in search of new themes and wines.
ADAR Member. Co-founder of the wine blog vin2.ro – stories with wine. #winelover community Ambassador for Romania. Collaborator Vinul.ro – wine magazine. Organiser of Rose Wine Contest. Initiator of the course Wine at School- Romanian varieties course. Co-founder Winelover Romania Association.
ADAR Vicepresident, Dealul Mare area, expert taster. Doctor in Oenology.
- A technology engineer by profession, creator of numerous wine brands, certified wine taster, and member of the Central Wine Tasting Commission of the Republic of Moldova.Member of the European Sommelier Association.
Secretary General of the Union of Oenologists of the Republic of Moldova.
Head of the Center for Innovation in the Wine Industry at the Technical University of Moldova (UTM).
- ADAR Member
- Specialist inspector in the Territorial Inspectorate ONVPV Iasi
- Member of the wine classification commissions
- Journalist and PR professional with 30 years experience in the global wine industry
- With his own PR agency xenos-comm he now helps wine producers especially from Eastern European countries to get better known in markets like Germany, Benelux, UK and Scandinavia
- Member of wine competitions all around the world
- Ambassador for Eastern Europe for Concours Mondial de Bruxelles
- He writes as an author for various magazines, e.g. Vinum, Meininger’s Wine Business international and others
- Wine market expert and chief winemaker for wineries in Bulgaria and Turkey
- Member of the Union of Enologists in Bulgaria
- Juror in various international wine competitions
- Master of Science in enology and viticulture
- ADAR member, expert taster
- Oenologist, university teacher, winery owner
- Juror in several national and international competitions

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