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ENTRY FORM: AFWS ANNUAL AWARDS 2011
Click onto page two to download an Entry Form and nomination brochure for the AFWS Annual Awards 2011. Due to popular demand the entry date has now been extended to 23rd September 2011.
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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 […]
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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Michele Caggianese wins 2011 UK Restaurant Manager of the Year
Michele Caggianese, restaurant and bar manager of London’s Jumeirah Carlton Tower was last night crowned as the Academy of Food and Wine Service’s UK Restaurant Manager of the Year 2011. This was the second year of trying for Italian-born Michele whose passion, dedication and charisma impressed the panel of judges. “Michele has great food & […]
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