New skills awards for heats and national finals -three new categories for chefs and waiters The Restaurant Association’s Young Chef Young Waiter competition is being launched this week with awards in three new skill categories for both chefs and waiters. The new awards will be given at the northern and southern heats as well as […]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
NEWS: YOUNG CHEF YOUNG WAITER COMPETITION LAUNCHES
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NEWS: AFWS DIRECTOR AWARDED OBE IN QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS
Academy of Food and Wine Service (AFWS) Director and World Champion Sommelier, Gerard Basset, has been awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Considered by many to be one of the world’s greatest authorities on wine, Basset is credited with changing perceptions of wine service worldwide, whilst training and mentoring a generation of young […]
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Blog: Yohann Jousselin – UK Sommelier of the Year 2011
Last week, at London’s Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel, Yohann Jousselin won the Academy’s prestigious UK Sommelier of the Year 2011. Yohann, who is head sommelier at the Vineyard at Stockcross, tells us how he felt going into the competition and the pressure he was under to win, having been the runner-up in 2010. “This year […]
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Yohann Jousselin is the new UK Sommelier of the Year 2011
It was third time lucky yesterday for French head sommelier Yohann Jousselin, 27, from The Vineyard at Stockcross in Newbury, Berkshire, who was last night crowned the 2011 Piper-Heidsieck UK Sommelier of the Year in the prestigious competition organised by the Academy of Food and Wine Service (AFWS). In 2010 Yohann came second in the […]
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