The Academy of Food and Wine Service (AFWS) is inviting entries from hospitality employers and staff for its front-of-house AFWS Annual Awards 2011, being held at London’s Butcher’s Hall on 18 October 2011. The Awards, which have been held by the Academy since 1988, celebrate and reward inspiring people and organisations whose hard work is […]
Yearly Archives: 2011
Blog: UK Amateur Sommelier of the Year visits Texture
As part of her prize for winning this year’s UK Amateur Sommelier of the Year, Catherine Ward-Brown visits the Michelin-starred Texture in London. Here’s what she thought… HAVING worked together at Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons, Agnar Sverrisson and Xavier Rousset established Texture in 2007. I’ve dined at Le Manoir a couple of times […]
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Blog: sommelier Louise Gordon visits Burgundy
At the 2010 Academy Awards for Excellence Louise Gordon, head sommelier at London’s Clos Maggiore, won the Louis Jadot & Savoy Educational Trust Sommelier Scholarship. Louise was singled out as being an excellent ambassador for her hotel and for the role of sommellerie and as someone who as well as holding down a demanding position […]
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Champagne tasting at LIWF
At this year’s LIWF the Academy organised a Champagne tasting as one of a series of educational sessions. The Academie de Lanson is working with AFWS to promote Champagne and educate the trade about Champagne. Here are the highlights of a presentation of malolactic and non-malolactic Champagnes involving a blind tasting of different Champagnes across […]
Restaurant Manager of the Year: video footage
This year’s Academy of Food and Wine Service UK Restaurant Manager of the Year competition was won by Michele Caggianese of the Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel in London. Here’s some fabulous video footage of the dinner and presentations after this year’s competition…
Academy wins industry’s prestigious Catey award
The Academy of Food and Wine Service (AFWS) was this week delighted to be awarded one of the prestigious Catey awards, the industry’s Oscars, in Caterer and Hotelkeeper’s annual awards ceremony. The Catey was for the best independent marketing campaign and was awarded to AFWS for the PR and social media campaign surrounding the successful […]
NEWS: YOUNG CHEF YOUNG WAITER COMPETITION LAUNCHES
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 […]
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Tagged Restaurant Association, Stephen Mannock, YCYW, Youn Chef, Young Waiter
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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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Tagged academy of food and wine service, gerard basset, Hotel du vin, Nina Basset, OBE, Queen's birthday honnours list, sommelier, Terravina
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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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