{"id":6244,"date":"2016-11-08T13:33:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T11:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liviko.staging.ee\/?p=6244\/"},"modified":"2016-11-08T13:33:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T11:33:44","slug":"lithuanias-martynas-pravilonis-named-best-baltic-sommelier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liviko.eu\/en\/lithuanias-martynas-pravilonis-named-best-baltic-sommelier\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania\u2019s Martynas Pravilonis named Best Baltic Sommelier"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/liviko.ee\/static\/GrandPrix2016-2-13-1024x683.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3106 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/liviko.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GrandPrix2016-2-13-1024x683-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Friday 4 November saw Lithuania\u2019s Martynas Pravilonis named the best sommelier in the Baltic States at the Vana Tallinn Baltic Sommelier Grand Prix in the Latvian capital R\u012bga. The exciting final saw Lithuania\u2019s Narimantas Mie\u017eys take 2nd place, while Latvia\u2019s Agnese Meiersone finished in 3rd place. Estonia\u2019s Marika Tikas was named Best Young Sommelier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe announcement of the winner was the third time in my life that I\u2019ve cried from happiness! I\u2019ve put a lot of effort into achieving this success, but it still feels amazing to be named the best among such strong rivals for the title,\u201d Martynas Pravilonis said upon winning the Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tasks in the 11 years of the competition have become quite broad and complicated, but they\u2019re practical and related to the daily life of the sommeliers. Compared to previous years, this year the contest was quite a lot about matching wines with food. So the finalists needed to blend different tastes, to know what customers prefer, and the winner was actually the sommelier who made the best food and wine recommendations,\u201d commented jury member, AS Liviko Product Manager for Quality Wines and sommelier Urvo Ugandi, who was the recipient of the very first Best Baltic Sommelier title at the Vana Tallinn Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>The main prize in the competition \u2013 a wine-themed trip \u2013 is sponsored by AS Liviko. The winner of the Best Young Sommelier title receives an exclusive corkscrew and renowned bottle of wine from Chateau Laguiole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking at the participants in the contest we can be confident that wine lovers are receiving good advice and being taken care of outside of the Vana Tallinn Grand Prix as well \u2013 and that the Baltic States have become part of a global gourmet world,\u201d said AS Liviko Marketing Director Liivi Tadolder.<\/p>\n<p>The members of the international jury were Raimonds Tomsons from Latvia, the winner of last year\u2019s Vana Tallinn Grand Prix and the best-performing Baltic entrant at the world sommelier championships to date, finishing in 7th place; the presidents of the sommelier associations of each country; AS Liviko Product Manager for Quality Wines and sommelier Urvo Ugandi; Polish Association of Sommeliers chairman Piotr Kamecki; and sommelier and Master of Wine title-holder Ga\u0161per \u010carman from Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p>The competition awarding the title of Best Baltic Sommelier takes its name from Liviko\u2019s legendary Vana Tallinn liqueur, the most popular beverage of its kind in Estonia. AS Liviko has been organising the Vana Tallinn Grand Prix in cooperation with the sommelier associations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1898, AS Liviko is a producer of high-quality alcohol with 117 years\u2019 experience. It has a well-developed distribution and wholesale network in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, through which it markets not only its own products but also imported international quality brands. Liviko is one of the three biggest alcohol companies in the Baltic States, placing as much emphasis on imports as it does on production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 4 November saw Lithuania\u2019s Martynas Pravilonis named the best sommelier in the Baltic States at the Vana Tallinn Baltic Sommelier Grand Prix in the Latvian capital R\u012bga. 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