Sparkling Wine Sparkling wine is a wine with significant levels of carbon dioxide in it, making it fizzy. While the phrase commonly refers to champagne, EU…
Month: June 2020
Sweet Wine Sweet wines, sometimes called pudding wines in the United Kingdom, are sweet wines typically served with dessert. There is no simple definition of a…
In 2009 I entered my first competition, The Best Sommelier of Sweden. To much surprise (myself more than anyone), I finished in second place. I was…
Paolo Basso is an Italian-Swiss sommelier and one of the six sommeliers in the world who has won the titles “Best Sommelier of Europe” in 2010…
Rose Wine A rosé (from French, rosé [ʁoze]) is a type of wine that incorporates some of the color from the grape skins, but not enough to qualify it as a red wine. It may be…
When Marc Almert became one of the youngest ever winners of the Best Sommelier of the World contest aged just 27, no-one was more surprised than…
Philippe Faure-Brac, born February 25, 1960 in Marseille, is a French sommelier who won the Best Sommelier of the World contest in Rio de Janeiro in…