Anne-Wies van Oosten #91

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Anne-Wies van Oosten is a well-known Wine-Food-Travel journalist from the Netherlands, currently living in Romania. On her online platform anne-wies.nl she shares her knowledge and insights on wine, food and travel with engaged, passionate consumers and professionals from all over the world. She is very active on social media on which, amongst others, she shares the articles she publishes. On a monthly base she reaches over 20.000 Wine & Food lovers. Writing as a free-lancer you can find her articles on several other websites and wine and food magazines, amongst others on glassofbubbly.com.

Anne-Wies has already taken part as juror in many international winetasting competitions including the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, the Wine of Moldova Contest, Mundus Vini, the Berliner Wine Trophy, Wine Vision by Open Balkan, Vinarium, the World Bulk Wine Competition, Concursul Vinuri Spumante Romanesti, Concursul Vinuri Rosé, the Concours Mondial du Sauvignon and the International Rosé Championship.

How it all started

Her expertise in wine and food has begun in 1980 when she started her own wines and delicacies store in The Hague, which belonged to the top-delicacies shops of The Netherlands. With this shop she won prestigious awards year after year. It was important for her to know where the products she sold were produced. For that reason she travelled all over the world to import her own cheeses, hams, wines, olive oils and much more. She shared her stories with her eager customers, but also started an online platform on enogastronomy to share her knowledge with a wider audience: ‘sharing is caring’

Never stop learning

After she sold her store in 2014 she started working as a free-lance writer and journalist on wine, food and travel, but never stopped sharing her articles on her platform anne-wies.nl. Meanwhile she has obtained the degree Register Vinoloog of the Wine Academy® in The Netherlands, followed by a variety of specialization courses on wine and food, both in the Netherlands and abroad. She successful finished the WSET level 4 Diploma and graduated as Weinakademiker at the Austrian Weinakademie with her thesis about ‘The Development and Future of Wine Tourism in Transylvania’.

Romania and beyond

Part of the year she spends time in her house in Transylvania, Romania, from where she visits Romanian wineries. The other part she travels the world to visit other wineries and wine & food events and to participate as a juror at local and international wine contests. For her platform she already explored (amongst others…) Chile and Argentina, China and Thailand, Spain and Italy, Germany and France, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria, 6 Balkan countries and, of course, closer to her home, Hungary and Romania. On the latter she gives wine tastings and masterclasses and on the broader Balkan she is going to teach at a new wine education school in The Netherlands.