Beatriz Machado is a judge at the 2023 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA)
Beatriz Machado
Beatriz Machado is Wine Director at The Yeatman, the award-winning luxury wine hotel in Porto.
After studying viticulture and enology at UC Davis in California and receiving Wine Spectator’s non-resident tuition grant for her studies, she returned to her native Portugal and was appointed to her current role at the five-star The Yeatman in 2010. There she is responsible for developing a 26,000 bottle, 1,300 reference wine cellar – the world’s most comprehensive collection of Portuguese table wines and Ports.
Under Machado’s guidance, The Yeatman has received international recognition for its wine programme, winning the Best of Award of Excellence from Wine Spectator every year since 2012.
Machado was first a DWWA judge in 2013.