BLOG
interview
Summary:
Delve into Champagne with the insight of Champagne experts and masterful instructors..sign up for the Champagne Master-Level program and Champagne Study Wine
Meet Ettore Donadeo, instructor at Caplan Wine Academy in Tokyo, first wine school to launch the Italian Wine Scholar in Japan!
Their first IWS session is scheduled to begin April 16th, more information and registration HERE.
Ettore, could you give us a bit of background on your personal and/or professional history in wine and how you got to Japan?
I arrived in Japan in 2008 after having graduated in Japanese language in Venice. First I worked as a software programmer, learning everything from scratch, but then I discovered my "true calling". In 2012 I went for some months in New Zealand where I got WSET Level 2 and Level 3, then back to Japan I started working in the industry. In 2017 I got the WSET Diploma and started working as a wine teacher at Caplan Wine Academy in Tokyo. Finally in 2019 I passed the IWS exam with High-est Honors!
Summary:
There is, arguably, no wine mind more extraordinary, more capacious or better informed than that of Jancis Robinson MW.
After university studies in mathematics and philosophy at Oxford, Jancis worked for a short while in the travel business before becoming a wine trade journalist in 1976. Within three years she was the wine correspondent of the Sunday Times, and over the following four decades, her staggering output of journalism, books and media