Madeleine is an international wine consultant based in Sweden. She consults globally to high profile wine producers on product development, blending, quality and style strategy, also in relation to the requirements of specific target markets. Madeleine is an appreciated coach and mentor for trade professionals, a speaker at seminars, holds master-classes and runs inspirational & educational benchmark tastings. She lectures at sommelier academies, culinary universities and for WSET Diploma students. 

Madeleine is Panel Chair at the International Wine Challenge, IWC, in London and has been a frequent international guest judge at other highly respected wine competitions such as Argentina Wine Awards, Air New Zealand Wine Awards, Decanter WWA, Australia´s Royal Adelaide Wine Show, and many others. In 2008 she became an MW and received the Quinta do Noval Award for her dissertation “The effect of altitude on Malbec in Mendoza”. Madeleine is one of only three MW´s in Sweden, the only female MW, and freelancing consultant. 

Having been raised in a restaurateur-family she studied to become one of the first Swedish Sommeliers in 1990 and in 1994 she won the Inter-Scandinavian Sommelier Contest as the most talented young Sommelier in Scandinavia. Several international scholarships and awards further triggered her dedication and passion for the world of wine.