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Marc Almert, 29, from Cologne, got a taste for wine during his training as a hotel manager.
After working at the Hotel Nassauer Hof in Wiesbaden and at the Vier Jahreszeiten in Hamburg, he has been working as a sommelier at the five-star hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich since 2017.
In March 2019 he won the world title of the Association de la Sommellerie Internationale.
You can see his world champion sip and the final here.
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