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Professional Sommelier, combined experience of 25 years in the hospitality industry. Owner „Winetaste School”, professional sommelier forming. Juror in national and international wine competitions. Wine journalist, Member of the Romanian Association of Journalists and Writers in Touris.
Jury IWCB 2020
04/042025
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.
29/052020
Founder of Greka Terra S.R.L. The last 6 years he has been importing and distributing selected Greek wines in the Romanian market. He is a wine blogger. He organize various wine events all over the country. WSET Student.
28/052020
Robert Marshall is a British born wine and spirits consultant with over 15 years experience in the restaurant and service industry. He moved to Romania in 2007 and began working for a local wine producer in 2010 and during this time also studied his WSET diploma in London. Since 2016 he has worked as a freelance consultant for importers of premium drinks, and is currently a brand ambassador for Remy-Cointreau In Romania.
24/052020
Master of Wine since 2016, the first Romanian having this title. Juror in Decanter World Wine Awards and International Wine Challenge.
20/022020
Master of Wine. He worked in wine research at Agroscope in Wädenswil, then as sales manager for oenology products. After that, he worked as wine buyer for Coop, Head of the purchasing department for Bataillard, Head of Product Management wine for Denner and now as the strategic buyer for Bataillard. His independent activities include producing wine on the island of Hvar in Croatia, consulting for different wine producers in Switzerland, Spain, and Croatia. Chairman of the Maître Conseil en Vins de France 2006 – 2008 and at the wine competition La Sélection in Basel. He writes for magazines including Schweizerische Weinzeitung (www.schweizerische-weinzeitung.ch) and Vinum.
19/022020
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.
15/022020
ADAR member, expert taster. Oenologist, university teacher, winery owner.
23/012020
She is currently a Buying Manager at Direct Wines, the largest direct-to-consumer wine retailer globally. Previously she has worked as a Buyer at another importer in the UK, for the Syndicate of Bordeaux wines in France, and for wineries in Australia. Over the past decade, her areas of specialty have been Spain and the countries of Central & Eastern Europe, including Romania.
23/012020
He is the wine journalist of the daily Le Figaro and weekly Le Figaro Magazine. With Le Figaro, he has opened a website specialized in wine ‘L’Avis du Vin’ and another one in China (TasteSpirit) which is the first in China. He writes too in the French press and in the foreign press (TasteSpirit in China, Wands in Japan, Feinschmecker in Germany). It is also a permanent member of the European Grand Jury, president of the Wine French Press Association and has written and contributed to numerous books and wine guides. Bernard Burtschy holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics and is Professor of Data Mining at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in Paris. FIJEV member.