{"id":10660,"date":"2012-09-24T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=10660"},"modified":"2012-09-25T11:27:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T11:27:46","slug":"canada-best-sommeliers-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/canada-best-sommeliers-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s Best Sommeliers\u200b: Celebratin\u200bg our Wine Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A toast to V\u00e9ronique Rivest who won the Best Canadian Sommelier Competition in Halifax on September 17, as well as to the finalists, Will Predhomme and \u00c9lyse Lambert. Semi-finalists included Bruce Wallner, Robert Noel and Bertrand Eichel.<\/p>\n

They all participated in extensive written exams, blind tasting, wine list correction and an hour-long simulated restaurant service in front of a live audience in their second language.<\/p>\n

You can watch two video interviews about the sommelier competition<\/strong><\/a> with semi-finalist Bruce Wallner<\/strong><\/a>.
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Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n

V\u00e9ronique Rivest<\/strong><\/a>
\nLes Foug\u00e8res Restaurant
\nChelsea, Quebec<\/p>\n

Congrats to our hometown gal<\/p>\n

on her extraordinary win:<\/p>\n

we are so proud of you Vero!<\/p>\n

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Finalists<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Will Predhomme\u00a0<\/strong> <\/a>
\nCanoe Restaurant
\nToronto, Ontario<\/p>\n

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\u00c9lyse Lambert\u00a0<\/strong> <\/a>
\nLe Local Restaurant
\nMontreal, Quebec<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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Semi-Finalists<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bruce Wallner\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>
\nPaese and Mideastro Restaurants
\nToronto, Ontario<\/p>\n

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Bertrand Eichel<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>
\n357c Club
\nMontreal, Quebec<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Robert Noel<\/strong><\/a>
\nD\u00e9j\u00e0 Bu! Restaurant
\nCaraquet, New Brunswick<\/p>\n

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A toast to V\u00e9ronique Rivest who won the Best Canadian Sommelier Competition in Halifax on September 17, as well as to the finalists, Will Predhomme and \u00c9lyse Lambert. Semi-finalists included Bruce Wallner, Robert Noel and Bertrand Eichel. They all participated in extensive written exams, blind tasting, wine list correction and an hour-long simulated restaurant service in front of a live audience in their second language. You can watch two video interviews about the sommelier competition with semi-finalist Bruce Wallner.   Winner V\u00e9ronique Rivest Les Foug\u00e8res Restaurant Chelsea, Quebec Congrats to our hometown gal on her extraordinary win: we are so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-restaurant-wine-lists","category-sommeliers-restaurants"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10660"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10685,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660\/revisions\/10685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}