On 26 February this year, 12 Member Associations of A.S.I. played host to 75 candidates for the 2018 ‘International A.S.I. Sommelier Diploma’
Assessed by the A.S.I. Exam Committee (under the guidance of Giuseppe Vaccarini), the final results revealed that 57 candidates passed, with 23 sommeliers obtaining the Gold certificate, and 34 the Silver certificate. And for the first time ever, a ‘Best of the Best’ title was awarded to Éric Zwiebel, a French sommelier from the United Kingdom.
This year Sommeliers Australia had two members sit for the Certification Exam, and both successfully passed!
Congratulations to Mattia Cianca (Gold) and Toru Takamatsu (Silver), who now join the ranks of Sommeliers who have gained A.S.I.’s internationally recognised accreditation.
And congratulations to all of our international sommelier colleagues who passed the rigorous examination process:
Australia
Mattia Cianca – Or/Gold
Toru Takamatsu – Argent/Silver
Austria
Sarah Falch – Argent/Silver
Stefan Klettner – Argent/Silver
Canada
Leagh Barkley – Argent/Silver
Croatia
Goran Petric – Argent/Silver
France
Éric Goetelmann – Or/Gold
Christophe Martin – Argent/Silver
Alexandre Morin – Argent/Silver
Denis Verneau – Argent/Silver
Greece
Eleftherios Hanialidis – Or/Gold
Efstathios Tsokos – Or/Gold
Alexandros Bouzikas – Argent/Silver
Aristotelis Sklavavenitis – Argent/Silver
Fotios Stathopoulos – Argent/Silver
Alexandros Triantafyllou – Argent/Silver
Hungary
Norbert Kovacs – Or/Gold
Mate Horvart – Or/Gold
Imre Racz – Argent/Silver
Japan
Kentaro Ikeda – Or/Gold
Takehiro Oide – Or/Gold
Masayasu Makita – Or/Gold
Makoto Abe – Or/Gold
Kenji Hayashi – Argent/Silver
Yuya Kondo – Argent/Silver
Aki Shidaka – Argent/Silver
Ryousuke Kamina – Argent/Silver
Takaaki Kosaka – Argent/Silver
Aki Sudo – Argent/Silver
Yuki Tumimitsu – Argent/Silver
Hiroyuki Mitsuoka – Argent/Silver
Mariko Watanabe – Argent/Silver
Akiho Tanaka – Argent/Silver
Luxembourg
Philip Niels Toase – Or/Gold
Monaco
Bruno Scavo – Argent/Silver
Netherlands
Martijn Roos – Or/Gold
Adriaan Visser – Or/Gold
Priscilla Van Der Voort – Argent/Silver
Russia
Andrey Abramov – Or/Gold
Pavel Bogdanov – Or/Gold
Max Grebenik – Or/Gold
Serguei Panov – Or/Gold
Valeria Tenison – Or/Gold
Irina Baeva – Argent/Silver
Evgeniya Nazimova – Argent/Silver
Olga Nestrueva – Argent/Silver
Gregory Podrezov – Argent/Silver
Karina Shchukina – Argent/Silver
Olga Khomchenko – Argent/Silver
Serbia
Marco Skarica – Argent/Silver
South Africa
Joakim Blackadder – Argent/Silver
South Korea
Cho Hyeon Cheol – Or/Gold
Han Hyisu – Or/Gold
Jang Bori – Argent/Silver
Kim Jin Soo – Argent/Silver
Taiwan
Lu Kai Wen – Or/Gold
United Kingdom
Eric Zwiebel – Or/Gold / Major de Promotion
