Jolanta Smiciene

Jolanta Smiciene

Congratulations Jolanta Smiciene for passing the Champagne Master-Level exam with honors!

Jolanta is currently a wine (and champagne) lector and consultant. She regularly provides tastings, dinners, lectures for connoisseurs and professionals. One of her main activities is training the staff of import companies, HORECA employees. Another part of her cooperation with import companies is consulting and arranging the wine (mainly champagne) portfolio.

Jolanta also works as a Wine and Travel journalist, writing about World wines. She is the author of most of the articles about Champagne published in Lithuania. She is also a member of the International Wine Journalist Association (FIJEV). Jolanta constantly presents reports from the Champagne region, writes analytical articles concerning the Champagne market and douse interviews with Champagne region winemakers, winegrowers, cellar masters.

Jolanta is also Dame Chevalier de l'Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne.

Julien Camus

Founder & President @ Wine Scholar Guild

Julien worked as Trade Attaché for wines and spirits at the French Embassy in Washington DC (2004-2006). In this role, he recognized the need for French wine education as a means to spur consumer demand and interest in his country’s wines.

To that end, he founded the Wine Scholar Guild in August of 2005,an organization dedicated to the promotion of French wine and culture through education. Julien invited national importers of French wine to join the organization as Industry Members and 25 key French wine importers did so immediately.

After leaving the embassy, he has devoted his energies to developing the Wine Scholar Guild and its network of program providers around the globe. Julien holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration with a major in International Marketing from the Strasbourg Management School.

In 2019, Julien was one of the "Future 50" award winners, an award created by WSET and IWSC to acknowledge professionals under 40 who have made a significant contribution to the industry.

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