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Professor at University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Iași. Scientific Secretary of the OIV Oenology Commission. OIV taster and delegate to numerous international wine competitions under the auspices of the OIV. Expert wine taster since 1997. Corresponding member of the Romanian Academy.
Jury IWCB 2018
28/032025
Director of projects and development at Châteauneuf-du-Pape wine producers Union
Creator and administrator of Vinadea (Wine house) from Châteauneuf-du-Pape
President of Châteauneuf-du-Pape Oenology (laboratory)
Graduated from Aix Marseille University
Administrator of « Sites remarquables du goût » national federation
Founder of « Slow Food Châteauneuf-du-Pape »
Vine grower in AOC Luberon et Ventoux at Arnia Estate
Member of various wine contests
16/102018
- Vicepresident Sélections Mondiales des Vins Canada www.smvcanada.ca
- Has been the consul of the Commanderie des Costes du Rhône, Baronnie of Québec, since 2018, and in 2012, was the first woman to be appointed commander of this wine fraternity
15/102018
- Co-founder of Exotic Wine Travel, an award-winning platform promoting wine, food, and travel in unique wine regions around the world.
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Author of three wine books Uncorking the Caucasus: Wine From Turkey, Armenia, and Georgia (Gourmand Award), Sipping Santa Barbara: Recommended Wines and Producers, and Cracking Croatian Wine: A Visitor Friendly Guide (Gourmand Award: Best In The World)
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A judge at various wine competitions around Europe
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WSET Advanced Certified (Level III)
15/102018
- Co-founder of Exotic Wine Travel, an award-winning platform promoting wine, food, and travel in unique wine regions around the world.
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Author of three wine books Uncorking the Caucasus: Wine From Turkey, Armenia, and Georgia (Gourmand Award), Sipping Santa Barbara: Recommended Wines and Producers, and Cracking Croatian Wine: A Visitor Friendly Guide (Gourmand Award: Best In The World).
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A judge at various wine competitions around Europe
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WSET Advanced Certified (Level III)
08/102018
- VINOFED Observer
- Graduated in Agricultural Sciences at the University of Turin
- In 2011 he has been nominated by the Aosta Valley Autonomous Region as President of Cervim and reconfirmed for two mandates
- He coordinated the organization of International Congresses on Mountain Viticulture and in Steep Slope, held in 2012 in Lyon (France), in 2017 in Conegliano (Italy) and in 2018 in Tenerife (Spain)
- Responsible of the “Mondial des Vins Extrêmes”
07/102018
- Professor emeritus of International Political Economy at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington
- An authority on global wine markets
- Wine economist, he owns The Wine Economist, which was named in 2015 “Best in the World” wine blog by Gourmand International
- He wrote more than a dozen books including Wine Wars (2011), Money, Taste & Wine: It’s Complicated!(2015) and Around the World in Eighty Wines (2018)
18/032017
- Certified state taster of the Republic of Moldova
- Secretary General of the Oenologists Union from the Republic of Moldova
- Expert-coordinator in wine industry, National Office for Vine and Wine
- European sommelier ACE Member
07/032017
- Oenology Proffesor and PhD guide at USAMV Bucharest.
- Research vicepresident ADAR. Expert and OIV delegate of MADR (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), oenology committee.
- Expert wine taster and OIV Observer.
- Member of Honor of Interational Academy of Sensory Analysis at Centro degli Studi Assagiatori.