Malu Lambert
Malu Lambert, DWWA Judge
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Malu Lambert is a judge at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards.

Malu Lambert

Malu Lambert is an award-winning wine writer. She won the title of the Emerging Wine Writer of the Year at the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers’ Awards 2019. She also won the Veritas Young Wine Writer in 2015.

She writes for numerous South African and international titles, including Decanter & Club Oenologique.

She was the wine editor of the South African Food & Home for five years.

She is a taster on the Platter’s Wine Guide, South Africa’s most definitive and respected guide to wine and she sits on various judging panels, including the venerated Wine-of-the-Month Club.

A graduate of the Michael Fridjhon Wine Judging Academy, Malu is currently a WSET Diploma student.

The rest of the time she runs Fable, a social media and copywriting company, and occasionally, helps out her husband in their craft spirits distillery on the Cape Peninsula.

Shivani Tomar
Shivani Tomar
Awards Manager

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. She serves on the Drinks United Advisory Council board.