Certified Sommelier to help you build wine, spirits and soft drinks selection, wine pairings, glassware selection for your Restaurant.

I am a Restaurant Manager and also Certified sommelier. I work in the industry of the Michelin starred restaurants, 5* Hotels and Palaces with 10+ years experience. I specialized in cost control and finance area of hospitality.

I offer my services as a certified sommelier with the Court of Masters Sommeliers.

A sommelier is in charge of the wine service, but also wine selection and wine pairings. In small places, your sommelier can also overlook the whole drinks selection (spirits, soft, etc...).

It is important to understand food, wine and service, but also to understand the budgets to build a consistent selection according to the sandards of your workplace and guests expectations.

I will be able to :

• Guide you with financial directions regarding drinks within your business (what is your position on the market ? what range of drinks are you looking to offer to you guests ? more importantly : what are you standards (traditional, gastro, etc...) ?)

• Recommend wine selections according to your geographical location to offer products as local as possible but also to offer classics and must have. My knowledge of wine industry will help to choose beautiful wines with reasonnable prices which will bring value to your wine list.

• Create your wine pairing. The industry is struggling with staff, I could help yours building a wine pairing without asking them to work very extensive hours. I will also explain how the wine will work with the food it is paired with.

• Suggest standards ands service techniques to develop knowledge and skills.

• I will be able to train regarding service standards and hospitality behaviour as a sommelier.

• I will help to understand how the beverages work with the food to gain knowledge so you will be able to acquire this skill for yourself.

• I will help you select and adapted glassware according to your needs and budget. It is very important to choose the correct glasses to serve your wine as the material, shape and size will affect the taste/quality of the wine.