2024 Jury

Specialists

Piotr Pietras MS

Poland

Master Sommelier, expert
category: reductive white wines

Managing Partner, Terroiryści and kontakt wino&bistro
category: reductive white wines

Piotr Pietras, is a co-owner of kontakt wino & bistro and a founder and managing director of Terroiryści, a project importing organic and biodynamic wines from around the world. Before Piotr returned to Poland, he worked as a sommelier for London’s top chefs: Gordon Ramsay (Maze), Ben Murphy (Launceston Place) and Ollie Dabbous (HIDE). He has also been successful in competitions becoming Best Sommelier of Poland 2015 and 2016, ASI’s 2nd Best Sommelier of Europe 2017, Chaine des Rotisseurs World’s Best Young Sommelier 2017, ASI’s 6th Best Sommelier of the World 2019. He became Master Sommelier in 2017 winning the Amorim Taster of the Year scholarship for the highest blind tasting score. Piotr is a judge at Decanter World Wine Awards and International Wine & Spirit Competition and a lecturer at Court of Master Sommeliers Europe.

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