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Sommeliers Australia Symposium [EVENT ENDED]



 
AUG
14
2012

VIC


Sommeliers Australia Event
When: Tuesday, August 14, 2012, 5pm - 9pm
Where: RACV Club
501 Bourke Street
Melbourne

  The Sommeliers Australia Symposia have been established to provide a genuine forum for discussion of specific issues affecting sommeliers, wine producers, wine distributors and restaurateurs by the people who help shape them.

Sommeliers Australia are holding a single-day Symposium each in Melbourne and Sydney encompassing a series of discussions and debates on three main topics in August 2012.

Sommeliers Australia President and Master of Ceremonies, Ben Edwards, will preside over each of the panels discussing each topic.

Topics include:

The Future of the Sommelier Profession

Speakers:
- Ben Edwards (The Wine Guide)
- Simon Napthine (TarraWarra)


Natural Wine: Reality vs Perception
Speakers:
- Max Allen (Journalist)
- Jeremy Shiell (Andrew Guard Wines)
- Robert Walters (Bibendum Wine Co.)
- Mac Forbes (Mac Forbes Wines)


Are Australian wines under-represented on Victorian winelists?
Speakers:
- David Lawler (Rockpool)
- Aaron Brasher (Wine Australia)
- Steve Webber (De Bortoli)


More speakers to be announced soon.

Attendees to the Symposia will have the opportunity to ask questions of, and enter into discussion with, the presenters.

Each Symposium will conclude with an opportunity for attendees and presenters to mingle and continue to discuss the topics of the day.
 
 

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