DWWA Judge Profile: Christopher Tanghe MS
Christopher Tanghe MS is is the Director of Education at GuildSomm.
Christopher Tanghe MS is is the Director of Education at GuildSomm.
Treve Ring is a wine writer and editor, judge and speaker, and perpetual traveller.
Piotr Pietras MS is a managing director of Polish wine importer Terroirysci and the co-owner of Kontakt Wino & Bistro in Warsaw.
Andrea Pritzker MW runs Wine inTuition, a wine education and corporate events business in Sydney.
Jorge Lucki is a wine author, consultant and writer contributing to several influential publications in Brazil.
Robin Kick MW is a freelance buying and export consultant, wine judge, educator and journalist, based in Lugano, Switzerland.
Jamie Hutchinson is the co-founder of the independent wine retailer The Sampler and Domaine d'Audaux, a replanting project in south west France.
Stefan Metzner is the co-owner and educator of Das Weininstitut in Munich.
Robert McNulty is the co-owner of Wine Academy Italia.
Cat Lomax has been a buyer for major UK retailers including Laithwaites, Waitrose, Majestic and, most recently, Marks & Spencer.
Higgo Jacobs is a wine consultant and a founding member and past Chairman for the South African Sommelier Association (SASA).
David Vareille is Brasserie General Manager at The Arts Club London.
Laura DePasquale MS is the President/General Manager of the ARTISANAL FINE WINES division of Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits Florida, a division she created and launched in May 2016.
Julie Chéné Nyheim MW works in Altia Norway's management team as Business Development Director. She is a judge for the Decanter World Wine Awards 2018.
Brian Cronin MS has worked as sommelier in some of the top restaurants in America and is now National Education Manager for Palm Bay International.
Julia Lambert is a wine educator at WSET School London as well as contributing to numerous in-person and online tasting events.
Katie Exton is a judge at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).
Karl Arbin is a wine consultant and runs Panache Sweden, a wine merchant focused on delivering honest wines through Systembolaget to end consumers.
Mikolaj Skrzypczak is Head Sommelier of the Michelin starred Trishna Restaurant.
Claire Nam is a wine writer in Korea and UK as well as being an Italian Wine Ambassador certified by Vinitaly International Academy. She has set up a micro-négociant GARAM in Bordeaux, producing a micro-cuvée Graves Blanc ‘Les Trois Mains’.
Christopher Sherwood is sole buyer and general manager of the four Bottle Apostle stores, founded in 2009 in Hackney, East London.
Ana Sapungiu MW is Head Wine Buyer for UK based retailer Oddbins.
Harriet Kininmonth is a Senior Buyer at Enotria & Coe.
Guillem Kerambrun is Director of Fine Wines & Private Clients for Berkmann Wine Cellars.
Derek Morrison is the host and Co-Creator of the online series and podcast “Bring Your Own” (@BYOPodcast), as well as the Co-Founder of Grower Champagne Month.
Caroline Hermann MW is a highly respected wine lecturer, having taught wine industry professionals since 2010 at the Capital Wine School in Washington DC.
Audrey Doré is a French sommelier who works at El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Spain.
Gemma Crangle is owner anmd and founder of Terroir Languedoc, an importer specialising in the finest terroir-driven wines from Languedoc-Roussillon.
Anthony Barne MW joined the wine trade from the army in 1978. His career was in mail order, wine buying and auctioneering.