DWWA judge profile: Zsuzsa Toronyi
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Zsuzsa Toronyi is a judge at the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).
Zsuzsa Toronyi
Zsuzsa Toronyi is an international wine marketing expert. After launching Coke Zero to the Hungarian market, Zsuzsa started her wine career as a wine buyer at Zwack Izabella Borkereskedes.
She is co-founder of the Central European Wine Institute, which offers WSET courses in Budapest. She worked there as the marketing director and a wine educator for nearly 8 years.
To deepen her technical wine knowledge, she completed an eonology MSC at the Corvinus University, Budapest.
Nowadays, her wine communication work focuses on promoting Central and Eastern European wines to the UK market.
Zsuzsa has extensive experience in judging regional and international wine competitions. She was a judge at the Decanter World Wine Awards for the first time in 2021.
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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.