Originally recorded for A Sommelier’s Insight, the official podcast of the Association de la Sommellerie Internationale in collaboration with ASI Magazine, a recent conversation with Harry Symington and Maria Boumpa offered a timely reminder that the making of a great…
Since the launch of the ASI Diploma in 2012, the Association de la Sommellerie Internationale has steadily built one of the wine and hospitality world’s most inclusive and globally relevant systems of professional benchmarking. What began as a top-level qualification…
Benjamin Hasko and Doug Frost are 2 of 5 people ever to achieve both the titles of Master Sommelier and Master of Wine,
A conversation with Jenny Hemmer, Executive Director of GuildSomm Wine education is in the midst of a quiet but profound transformation. Once centred around a small number of traditional institutions and geographic hubs, learning today is increasingly global, digital, and…
When Sofia Salvador joined ViniPortugal nearly 14 years ago, the world of Portuguese wine was already rich with tradition and diversity. Yet despite this, there was no consistent, structured approach to wine education. Today, as Head Educator of the Wines…
