Wine Sentience - Te Aro
About Wine Sentience
Stephen Wong, Master of Wine
Wellington's own resident Master of Wine, Stephen fell in love with it while playing music at clubs and doing harvest while studying at Otago University. He took on sommelier and waitstaff roles in Wellington in the early 2000s, running the wine programmes at Café Bastille/Roxburgh Bistro, The Matterhorn (pre-2011), Citron, The Spire Queenstown, Singapore Marriott Hotel and Arbitrageur Wine Room while Wine Sentience was coming together.
With a focus on education and communication, he teaches the first year wine paper for Le Cordon Bleu's Bachelor of Culinary Arts and Business degree, was a founding member of the NZ Sommelier and Wine Professionals Association, and occasionally judges wine shows in NZ and Australia. He works closely with wine festivals and NZ Winegrowers in education, presenting and speaking at the Sommit Scholarship, Pinot Noir Conference, The Aromatics Symposium, Bragato Conference and at their events in Melbourne, Hong Kong and China. He currently coorganises the Australasian MW Educational Seminar with Andrea Pritzker MW and sits on the Education Committee of the Institute of Masters of Wine.
As one of the organisers for Budburst, natural wine is a particular passion for him. A natural wine pioneer, Stephen instigated Ponsonby’s Golden Dawn Tavern becoming the first natural wine bar in the country back in 2010, followed by Ancestral and Whitebait Restaurant a few years later. This commitment is now carried on by Sherwood Queenstown. However, as a classically trained taster, fine wine is definitely part of his oeuvre. Stephen handles the Wellington fine-wine support for French specialist importer Maison Vauron and also runs in-depth tastings and masterclasses on traditional fine wines regularly. You'll see him presenting at vintage assessment tastings of Germany, New Zealand, Rhône, Burgundy and Bordeaux as well as deep-dives into the myriad natural wine styles..
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| Address : | Wine Sentience level 1/104 Vivian Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand |
| Phone : | 📞 +888 |
| Postal code : | 6011 |
| Website : | https://www.winesentience.com/ |
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