DWWA judge profile: Kathrine Larsen MS
Kathrine Larsen MS is Premium Wine Ambassador at Enotria & Coe.
Kathrine Larsen MS is Premium Wine Ambassador at Enotria & Coe.
Leonid Fadeev works at Cote Rocheuse as Executive Director, steadfastly developing the company whilst continuing his wine education, working towards the Master of Wine qualification.
Peter Ranscombe is a journalist, copywriter and novelist. He is also the wine columnist and drinks blogger for Scottish Field magazine.
Joanna Simon is a London-based wine writer, author and presenter. She is co-founder of The Wine Gang and editor of Waitrose Drinks magazine.
Nancy Gilchrist MW is an independent wine educator and consultant.
Fernando Mora MW is a Spanish winemaker and consultant, who created Bodegas Frontonio and launched Cuevas de Arom.
Margaret Rand's current work includes writing for World of Fine Wine, winesearcher.com, timatkin.com and Gourmet Traveller Wine; she is general editor of the annual Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book.
Maurizio Broggi works at the Wine Scholar Guild as Education Director for Italy, developing the Italian Wine Scholar programme.
Dirceu Vianna Junior MW is founder of Vianna Wine Resources, a company that consults for wine businesses across Europe, Africa and South America.
Björnstierne Antonson is the head sommelier & champagne bar manager at The Champagne Bar by Richard Juhlin in Stockholm.
Victoria Anderson is sole wine buyer for Booths, the family-run, regional grocery retailer.
Hugo Rose MW is Managing Director of Cellar&Co, a fine wine asset management company. He was a former chairman of the Institute of Masters of Wine (for whom he is joint Endowment Investment Officer) and of the Wine Investment Association.
Julie Dupouy is founder of consultancy company Down2Wine and a sommelier-consultant for 1* Michelin restaurant Chapter One.
Marc Almert is in charge of the wine department at five-star hotel Baur au Lac‘s two-Michelin-star restaurant Pavillon. He was named Best Sommelier of Germany in 2017 and in 2019 the Best Sommelier in the World.
Tim Sykes is a member of the Wine Society buyers team, and is responsible for buying Bordeaux, Beaujolais and Sherry.
Cristina Alcalá is a qualified sommelier, wine consultant, and taster based in Spain.
Maria Antonia Fernandez-Daza is a Madrid-based consultant specialising in developing strategies for the internationalisation of Spanish wine companies.
John Hoskins MW has his own business, the hotel-restaurant The Old Bridge, in Cambridgeshire.
Swiss-Italian Paolo Basso, now a wine trader and consultant, won the Best Sommelier of the World 2013.
Vincenzo Donatiello is the Restaurant Manager & Wine Director of 3 Michelin star Piazza Duomo, Alba.
Gennaro Buono is Corporate Sommelier for the Manfredi Fine Hotel Collection.