Who am I, hiding behind the alias VinoSancto?
My name is Maria Scharffenberg. Born and raised in Sweden, but have the last years lived in both Austria, Germany, The Netherlands and for the moment I’m living in Canada
I am a certified Sommelier, educated at the Europäische Sommelier Schule in Germany, and teacher of the European School for Sommelier (the international sommelier school, currently present in 17 different countries) for which I train sommelier, hold courses for different level and conduct seminars and events as well as certify new sommeliers.
In addition to education, training and didactic planning, I have consulted at various restaurants and wine shops, organizes and participates in different events, etc. I am a regular member of the jury for different wine competitions such as for example Berlin Wine Trophy, Cyprus Wine Competition etc.
And, as you can see, finding your way to this page, I also blog about my experiences and thoughts about the world of wine. Some of the blogs has earlier also been published at Eurosommelier.de
As mentioned, my native language is Swedish. So please bear with me when spelling mistakes, interesting sentencing structures or grammatical disasters pop up. 😉
Maria Scharffenberg
Ps. If you want to know more about me, please visit my other site: Scharffenberg.eu
A word of advice though, It’s all in Swedish