Wine education can help your career whether you are a sommelier, restaurant manager, or are a retail professional. There are a lot of professional qualification available related to wine education. It enables one to achieve the relevant expertise needed to recommend a wine to a customer based on their preferences and suggest a food pairing based on the flavour profile of the wine.

Depending on what program you choose to follow it will also cover the wine service aspect which will ultimately help in making sure the customers are having a great experience.

Join Sid Patel, CEO, Beverage Trade Network, as he chats with Matthieu Longuere MS, Wine Development Manager at Le Cordon Bleu, where Matthieu explains how wine education can be helpful for industry professionals.

About Matthieu Longuere MS

Wine Development Manager at Le Cordon Bleu

Matthieu is Le Cordon Bleu’s wine development manager at their school in London, where he develops and teaches their diploma in wine, gastronomy and management, and the certificate in wine and beverage studies. In 2000, Longuère won the UK Sommelier of the Year Competition Trophée Ruinart. Representing the UK, he reached the semi-final of the Best Sommelier of Europe competition in 2010. Longuere became a Master Sommelier in 2005.