Early Deadline
30 Nov 2024
Judging
Date
24 & 25 March 2025
Winners Announcement
22 April 2025
30 Nov 2024
24 & 25 March 2025
22 April 2025
24 & 25 March 2025
points
points
points
Currently Beatrice is Head Sommelier at the Chiltern Firehouse in Marylebone, a five-star luxury boutique hotel, with a restaurant and a cocktail bar, leading a seven-sommelier team.
Beatrice Bessi has worked in hospitality for over 20 years. In 2016, she moved from Italy where she was a restaurant manager in a Michelin-starred establishment, to London.Thirsty to increase her knowledge of the wine world, she joined Ronan Sayburn MS and his team at 67 Pall Mall. Here she started as Junior Sommelier, working her way up to become Assistant Head Sommelier.
In those three and a half years, she studied for the Court of Master Sommelier qualifications and she managed in 2019 to achieve the Advanced CMS. She is a certified WSET Educator and certified Diploma ASI. At the moment she is candidate of the Master Sommelier qualification and the WSET Diploma.