Wednesday, 23nd March, 11:00-12:00
Venue: „C” Congress Centre, Session Room F7
Wojciech Bońkowski is a wine writer from Poland, author of four wine books and editor-in-chief of the largest Polish wine medium with 600K readers yearly, Winicjatywa. In June 2017with fellow wine writers Ewa Rybak and Ewa Wieleżyńska, he launched Ferment, Poland’s new printed wine magazine. He regularly contributes to Meininger’s Wine Business International and www.timatkin.com, and is a Decanter World Wine Awards judge. He currently serves as President of the Polish Wine Trade Association, and is a Stage 3 Master of Wine student. He specialises in the wines of Italy, Greece, Croatia, Central Europe, and Port. And he actually has another life in which he researches 19th-century music.
Originally a lawyer Gabriella Mészáros was the first Hungarian to receive a diploma at WSET. She has been closely following the developments of the Hungarian wine scene since the 1990s. Her tasting notes and observations were made widely available through the publication of 16 editions of Borkalauz which were all edited by her. She was the founder of Hungary’s first wine school and for almost 30 years one of its preeminent lecturers. For the last twenty years she has been the chairperson of the annual wine selection program of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Relations. She’s a lecturer at Tokaj-Hegyalja University.
The tastings and courses conducted by her have been major contributions to the advancement of Hungarian wine culture and wine quality.