DWWA judge profile: Tone Veseth Furuholmen MW

Tone Veseth Furuholmen MW is a new judge at the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).

Tone Veseth Furuholmen MW

She became a master of wine in 2024 and holds a Master of Management degree from BI Business school and a Bachelor’s Degree in interpreting and translation from Italy.

Prior to working for the Norwegian Wine Monopoly she worked as a trade analyst for the Italian Trade Commission and also spent several years working for different wine importing companies within Anora where her final position was managing director for Symposium Wines.

Combined with her full-time position at the Monopoly Tone teaches Sommelier Education and WSET Diploma in Oslo. Tone’s expertise covers different parts of the wine industry such as product development, branding, marketing, PR, distribution, education, sensory research and in-depth knowledge regarding the purchasing systems of the Scandinavian Monopolies.

Tone is also an expert on mousiness in wine, which was the theme of her final MW Research Paper.

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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.