DWWA judge profile: Lauren Denyer
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Lauren Denyer is a judge at the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).
Lauren Denyer
Lauren Denyer is the diploma events and enrichment manager at WSET School London, where she organises and hosts events and learning opportunities for the Diploma students. She also teaches all levels of WSET wine qualifications.
She has extensive teaching experience having worked as a head of faculty in a secondary school and as an education consultant.
Lauren completed the WSET Diploma in June 2017. She is also a Certified Sherry Educator and a Stage 2 Master of Wine student. Her areas of expertise include Sherry, Spain, Portugal, Champagne, Languedoc, Alsace and Jura.
She joined the Decanter World Wine Awards as a judge for the first time in 2022.
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Born and raised in India, Shivani is the awards manager at Decanter, managing the 300-strong cohort of worldwide judges for the world's largest wine competition, the Decanter World Wine Awards, ensuring a seamless judging process and driving the competitive integrity of the awards. After earning a master’s in wine management from the Burgundy School of Business, she moved to London in 2016 and completed her WSET diploma. While Burgundy holds a special place in her heart, Champagne is her go-to bottle. Alongside her full-time role, she has been dipping her toes into wine writing, relishing the opportunity to bring wine stories to the surface.