The next A.S.I. contest of the Best Sommelier of Europe & Africa will take place in Vienna, Austria in May. 38 candidates registered, 3 sommeliers of them coming from Africa. It is a première. That continent having only three associations so far, it is not enough for a continental contest. But the A.S.I. wanted to give them the opportunity of discovering the world of international competitions.
The candidates for Europe
Albanie / Albania – Bujar TUKULI
Allemagne / Germany – Torsten JUNKER
Autriche / Austria – Suvad ZLATIC
Belgique / Belgium – Antoine LEHEBEL
Croatie / Croatia – Filip SLAVIC
Chypre / Cyprus – George LOUKAKIS
Danemark / Denmark – Christian JACOBSEN
Espagne / Spain – Guillermo CRUZ ALCUBIERRE
Estonie / Estonia – Ketri LEIS
Finlande / Finland – Heidi MAKINEN
France – David BIRAUD
Grèce / Greece - Eleftherios KANDYLIS
Hongrie / Hungary – Maté HORVATH
Irlande / Ireland – Julie DUPOUY
Islande / Iceland - : Thorleifur SIGURBJORNSSON
Italie / Italy – Gennaro BUONO
Lettonie / Latvia – Raimonds TOMSONS
Lituanie / Lithuania – Martynas PRAVILONIS
Luxembourg – Niels TOASE
Norvège / Norway – Henrik DAHL JAHNSEN
Pays-Bas / Netherlands – Ruben KWAKMAN
Pologne / Poland – Piotr PIETRAS
Portugal – Nelson GUERREIRO
Slovaquie / Slovakia – Ratislav SUTAK
République Tchèque / Czech Republic – Jakub PRIBYL
Roumanie / Romania – Julia SCAVO
Royaume-Uni / United Kingdom – Eric ZWIEBEL
Russie / Russia – Aleksandr RASSADKIN
Serbie / Serbia – Vlada STOJANOV
Slovaquie / Slovakia – Radislav SUTAK
Slovénie / Slovenia - Gasper CARMAN
Suède / Sweden – Robert ANDERSSON
Suisse / Switzerland – Fabio MASI
Turquie / Turkey – Serdar BALKAYA
Ukraine – Dmytro GONCHARUK
The candidates for Africa
Afrique du Sud / South Africa – Jean-Vincent RIDON
Ile Maurice / Mauritius – Luciano Jeff THOMÉ
Maroc / Morocco – Zacharia WAHBY
The programme of the tests
May 9th : quarter Final for the 38 candidates
May 10th: semi-final for the 12 selected from the day before
