Paris, France

Sommelier, Le 6 Paul Bert

Spain, Italy & France

Tasting natural wines, seeing the vineyards of my winemaking friends, trying new restaurants. It’s a passion! 

The land of my ancestors in Vietnam. Although there is no wine there – the food is really nice using interesting products. Would love to eat a real Pho

Osteria Nero d’Avola Taormina – Messina, Italy. I loved the carpaccio d’artichaut cru, huile d’olive, parmesan et citron cedrat – it reminded me of my beautiful wine trip in Sicily, everywhere there was the taste of the sun, lemon and fantastic acidity. When you bit into the Cedrat lemon is like an apple in your mouth… everyone should try this!

When I was little, playing with my cousins in Alsace waiting for a special meal that revolved around a dish called Baeckeoffe … it’s like a ragout with 4 different meats, potatoes and Riesling cooked in a special terrine in the oven for many hours… the flavor of the wine marinated in the meat was fantastic.

My wine hero right now is Jösko Gravner, he ferments his wine in terra-cotta amphorae in a small Italian Fruili town called Olslavia! This winemaker makes a wine like nobody else…. So pure and elegant! When you watch the color of his wine it’s an orange with a line of pink of the top… with complex different tastes! It’s like a white wine but vinified like a red wine… Perfect with a raw tartare of chinchard fish with cherry…

I take photos of food all the time, like a geek!!

A chick pea & cabillaud soup at Roseval with Sauvignon Blanc de Strohmeier!

In Italy, where the menu was hand drawn pictures of the food!

Chocolat from Edouard Hirsinger in Arbois, France – the apple, buckwheat and dark chocolate!

A natural wine bar in a cosmopolitan city like Berlin, London or NYC!

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