2025’s Elite: The Top 100 Sommeliers Shaping the UK Wine Scene

Taylor’s Port Top 100 Sommeliers has released its 2025 list of the leading sommeliers in the UK. The annual ranking recognises sommeliers at the top of their game.

23rd June 2025, London – Taylor’s Port Top 100 Sommeliers number one UK sommelier is Vincenzo Arnese, Director of Wine at Raffles, The OWO London, and the Top Female Sommelier is Maria Boumpa, Wine Director & Restaurant Manager, Da Terra, London.

Top 100 Sommeliers is an annual ranking of the UK’s top sommelier talent, celebrating the art and savoire faire of those professionals who epitomise service in wine.

The ranking invites nominations from sommeliers and their hospitality peers from across the British Isles making it possibly the most independent, objective and accurate ranking of its kind. Based on the nominees’ experience, career and educational achievements, day-to-day responsibilities and performance in competitions, Top 100 Sommeliers uses an infallible, aggregated points system to assess and analyse each sommeliers’ professional successes.

Special awards are presented to those sommeliers in the UK who have gone above and beyond in the promotion of this aspirational profession and in the pursuit of excellence during their careers:

• 2025 Top 100 Sommeliers Legend Award: Frederic Brugues, Wine Director, Sketch
• 2025 Top 100 Sommeliers Inspiration Award: Eric Simonics, Head of Wine & Beverage – Europe, Sunset Hospitality Group
• 2025 Top 100 Sommeliers Innovation Award: Joseph Stark, Beverage Director at Wild Shropshire
• Top 5 Female Sommeliers: Maria Boumpa, Da Terra; Emma Denney, Claridge’s; Agnieska Swiecka MS, Mount Street Restaurant; Beatice Bessi, Chiltern Firehouse; Rudina Arapi, London Hilton on Park Lane
• Top 5 Ones to Watch: Yancheng Liu, Maison Estelle; Erazem Ocvirk, The Gleneagles Hotel; Milena De Waele, Petrus; Zsofia Kiss, Bacchanalia; Roxane Dupuy, The Social Company – Row on 5
• Top 5 Young Sommeliers: Daniel Bennett, Heft; Wilem Powell, BiBi Restaurant; Camilla Bonnannini, Albatross Death Cult; Erazem Ocvirk, The Gleneagles Hotel; Federico Quintavalle, Ikoyi Restaurant

2025 Top 100 Sommeliers

1. Vincenzo Arnese Director of Wine, Raffles London at The OWO
2. Maria Boumpa Head Sommelier, Da Terra
3. Matteo Furlan Head of Wines, The Dorchester
4. Emma Denney Director of Wine, Claridge’s
5. Garry Clark Sommelier/Beverage Manager, Pale Hall Hotel and Restaurant
6. Sumith Alahakoon Wine Director, Sushisamba, W Hotel Edinburgh
7. Stuart Skea Group Head Sommelier, Lyla
8. Agnieszka Swiecka Head of Wine, Mount Street Restaurant at The Audley
9. Yuri Gualeni Head of Wine, Babbo
10. Valentin Mouillard Head Sommelier, L’Enclume
11. Giuseppe D’Aniello Group Head of Wine, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants
12. Philipp Reinstaller Head Sommelier, new opening ‘COMO’ x Trivet
13. Beatrice Bessi Head Sommelier, Chiltern Firehouse
14. Klearhos Kanellakis Head Sommelier, Ekstedt at The Yard
15. Angelo Lorea Head of Wine, The Roof Gardens
16. Sonal Clare Wine Director, The Wilderness
17. Rudina Arapi Director of Wine, London Hilton on Park Lane
18. Julien Sarrasin Head Sommelier, HIDE
19. Sam Weatherill Wine Director, etch. by Steven Edwards
20. Eugenio Egorov Head Sommelier, The Stafford Hotel
21. Daniel Stojcic Head Sommelier, Estelle Manor
22. Dmytro Goncharuk Wine Manager, The Barbary
23. Carolina Seibel Head Sommelier, Restaurant Story and Story Cellar
24. Fernando Cubas Head of Beverage, InterContinental London Park Lane
25. Roxane Dupuy Executive Head Sommelier, The Social Company – Row on 5
26. Vanessa Stoltz Head Sommelier, Restaurant Pine
27. Roberto Zanca Sommelier, Prithvi
28. Daniele Arcangeli Head Sommelier, Aragawa
29. Jiachen Lu Head Sommelier, CORD by Le Cordon Bleu
30. Kelvin McCabe Wine Director, Adam Handling
31. Andrea Strocchio Head Sommelier, Pavyllon – Four Seasons Park Lane
32. Anastasios Karakasis Head of Wine, new opening ’17 Bruton Street’
33. Harry Cooper Head Sommelier, Counter 71
34. Antonio Polise Head of Wine, LSL Capital Group
35. Alexandru Dan Head Sommelier, Ocean, The Atlantic Hotel
36. Matilda Tsappis Co Owner, Killiecrankie House
37. Antonio Palmarini  Head of Beverages, Beaverbrook Townhouse
38. Julio Tauste Head Sommelier, The Orrery
39. Alexandra Price Head of Wine, Plates London
40. Zsofia Kiss Head of Wine, Bacchanalia
41. Stefano Barbarino Head Sommelier & Wine Buyer, The Northall & Garden Lounge – Corinthia Hotel
42. Dario Barbato Head of Wine, San Carlo Group
43. Claude Millee Head Sommelier, The Glenturret Lalique Restaurant
44. Elisa Marchini Head Sommelier, Muse by Tom Aikens
45. Michael Driscoll Group Beverage Manager, The Holland Group
46. Luigi Conca Head of Wine, Corrigan Collection
47. Michel Paszto Head Sommelier, The Ritz
48. Marius Plesa Head Sommelier, The Waterside Inn
49. Beth Bond Co Owner, Cottage in the Wood
50. Léonard Lievin Head Sommelier, Ben Wilkinson at The Pass

Top 51 to 100

in alphabetical order

• Giovanni Andriulo Senior Sommelier, Oswald’s
• Monica Bacchiocchi Head Sommelier, Wilton’s Restaurant
• Roman Barina Head Sommelier, Rosewood London
• Leonardo Barlondi Assistant Head of Wines, The Dorchester
• Daniel Bennett General Manager, Heft
• Filipe Bhering Reis Head of Wine, Annabel’s
• Luca Bocca Assistant Head Sommelier, Sketch – The Lecture Room & Library
• Camilla Bonnannini Wine & Beverage Director, Albatross Death Cult
• Roberto Bravo Assistant General Manager/Head Sommelier, Duck & Waffle
• Fabrizio Canino Head Sommelier, Lavo Restaurant at BoTree Hotel
• Nicola D’Ascenzo Senior Sommelier, The London Edition
• Milena De Waele Head Sommelier, Petrus
• Francesco Di Fonzo Head Sommelier, Kerridge’s Bar & Grill
• Arnaud Dolmazon Head Sommelier, Heckfield Place
• Nikos Emner Head Sommelier, Woven by Adam Smith
• Jake Garstang Restaurant Manager & Sommelier, etch. by Steven Edwards
• Fred Goodwin-Hayward Assistant Sommelier, Restaurant Hywel Jones
• Giuseppe Grasso Head Sommelier, Alex Dilling at Café Royal
• Oliver Hart-Wilson Food & Beverage Manager, The Torridon Hotel
• Dylan Johnstone-Morris Head Sommelier, Julie’s Restaurant
• Konstantinos Katridis Junior Assistant Head Sommelier, The Fat Duck
• Oliver Kaviani Restaurant Manager & Sommelier, JORO Restaurant
• Gabriel Lee Head Sommelier, Latymer Restaurant
• Yancheng Liu Club Deputy Head Sommelier, Maison Estelle
• Edoardo Lucaroni Head of Wine, Hotel Sofitel St James / Wild Honey
• Jacopo Maroni Head Sommelier, The Braywood
• Callum McCann Head Sommelier, Number One, The Balmoral
• Alessandro Medas Senior Sommelier, The London Edition
• Elizabeth Mellish Head Sommelier, Gleneagles Town House
• Fabio Monteiro Head Sommelier, 1890 Restaurant
• Ioannaa Nerantzi Head Sommelier, 5 Hertford Street
• Konstantinos Nestoridis Head Sommelier, Midsummer House
• Erazem Ocvirk Assistant Head Sommelier, The Gleneagles Hotel
• Wilem Powell Head of Beverage BiBi Restaurant
• Shashi Prakash Food & Beverage Manager, Taymouth Castle
• Federico Quintavalle Head Sommelier, Ikoyi Restaurant
• Alessio Ragusini Head Sommelier, Humo
• Lucas Reynaud-Paligot Head of Wine, Hélène Darroze at The Connaught Hotel
• Charlie Richards Senior Sommelier, Claridge’s
• Davide Santeramo Assistant Head Sommelier, The Ritz
• Pedro Santos Head Sommelier, The Twenty-Two
• Natasha Senina Head Sommelier, Chewton Glen
• Daniela Shelton Head Sommelier, Iné by Taku
• Magdalena Śleziak Head Sommelier, Northcote
• Imre Somogyi Assistant Head Sommelier, The Ritz
• Joseph Stark Beverage Director, Wild Shropshire
• Paul Stibbles Head Sommelier, The Strathearn
• Alex Tiron Assistant Head Sommelier, The Kitchin Restaurant
• Yin Chi Bowie Tsang Head Sommelier, Taku Mayfair
• Holly Willocks Wine Manager, Mountain