Educators
Lecturer for areas: Serbia, history of wine, top service, sales, wine list, glasses, service exercises.
By profession, he is a hospitality technician of the Secondary school for Tourism and Hospitality in Belgrade, and manager in the hospitality industry of the Russian International Academy of Tourism in Baku.
Attended trainings: SERSA advanced level and Train the Trainer course at the Hyatt International Corporation.
Dejan is one of the founders of the Serbian Sommelier Association.
He holds the title of the best bartender of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003, and is the organizer of numerous sommelier competitions in Serbia, and wine and brandy evaluations.
He is an international judge at sommelier competitions organized by the International Association of Sommeliers – ASI, and since 2020 he is also the Head of Logistics for ASI Sommelier Contest Committee.
Lecturer for areas: viticulture, vinification and sensory analysis of wine.
Master of Food Technology, Faculty of Technology in Novi Sad.
Holder of Sommelier SERSA level 3 and WSET level 3 certificates.
Đurđa is a member of the State Commission for Sensory Evaluation of Wine and an international wine judge.
Lecturer for areas: viticulture and vinification.
Graduated engineer of food technology at the Faculty of Agriculture in Belgrade, master of food and wine technology, with narrower specialization in the field of technological engineering, and manager in education of the University of Shanghai.
Holder of the SERSA advanced level certificate.
Attended workshops and seminars: ICT solutions and Knowledge transfer, Capinfood project, in Belgrade.
She is one of the authors of the “Serbian Mini winery” project, in cooperation with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade.
Sonja is a PhD student at the Faculty of Agriculture in Belgrade and is the author of numerous academic and research papers in her field of work.
Lecturer for the area of wine service.
Geodetic technician.
Holder of the Sommelier SERSA Level 3 certificate.
Damir is the manager and sommelier of one of the renowned restaurants in Belgrade.
Lecturer for the areas: Balkans, gastronomy, food and wine pairing.
Economic technician.
Holder of SERSA level 3 Sommelier certificate.
Attended trainings: Bartenders710.
From 2016 to 2020, Nemanja was actively dedicated to researching the Balkans through the New Balkan Cuisine project. He specializes in matching the flavors of food and wine, and he was also the initiator of the “Back to the Future” and “Gastro Jedinstvo” themed dinners.
Lecturer for the area of New World.
Graduated professor of sports and physical education.
He holds the Court of Master sommeliers certificate – level certified and the Wine School of Philadelphia educator certificate.
Dušan is an international wine judge and the author of numerous articles published in wine magazines.
Lecturer for the area: Italy.
Manager in gastronomy and hotel management, at the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics in Novi Sad.
Holder of SERSA level 3 Sommelier certificate, ASI diploma, as well as the introductory level of the Court of Master Sommeliers.
Attended trainings: Habano Cigar Academy, training for bartenders at the association “BarmeNS”.
Vuk holds the title of the best sommelier connoisseur of sparkling wines in Serbia in 2016, the best sommelier of Serbia in 2017, the best sommelier of the Balkans in 2018, held in Belgrade, while he took 19th place in the competition for the best sommelier in the world in 2019 in Antwerp, in competition with colleagues from 60 countries.
Lecturer for the area of Spain
Master professor of Spanish language and Hispanic literature, Faculty of Philology in Belgrade.
Holder of Sommelier SERSA level 3 and WSET level 3 certificates.
Marija is a Spanish wines specialist of the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX), Cava educator of the Cava Academy, Regulatory Council D.O. Cava, as well as alumni of the Sherry Academy and the Rioja Academy in Spain.
Lecturer for the area of bar and bar business.
Graduated in economics in hotel industry.
President of the association Bartenders710, member of the John Whyte Club by IBA, with the title of the best JWC team of 2011.
Vladimir is the national winner of the 2013/14 Beefeater competition and a finalist in the global competition held in London in 2014.
Lecturer for the areas: cigars in the HoReCa sector and wine distillates.
Catering technician by profession and alumni of the Faculty of Hotel Management in Opatija.
Attended trainings: Sales techniques (advanced level), Leadership skills, Train the Trainer course at the Hyatt International Corporation, Johnnie Walker Academy brand ambassador training, Macallan Academy brand ambassador training, Remy Martin Academy brand ambassador training, brand ambassador Moet Hennessy Academy, Metaxa Academy training.
Zdravko is one of the founders of the Serbian Sommelier Association.
He is the author of numerous columns about cigars in the magazines: Playboy, Insider, Standard, Camp, Fame and Café & Bar, and he is the first gastro critic of the Gastrodrom column of the Standard magazine. He is the founder of the Belgrade Smoking Weekend event, a member of numerous international cigar associations, a participant of The Habanos festival since 2004 and coauthor of the cigars of the first Serbian cigar brend.
Lecturer for the area of France (Bordeaux, Alsace, Rhône Valley).
Holder of the USA Sommelier association Sommelier certificate, Advanced level certificate of the Austrian Wine academy and the WSET level 3.
Since 2021, Predrag is a student of the WSET diploma program at the Austrian Wine Academy.
Lecturer for the area: Serbian fruit distillates (brandy/rakija).
XIV Belgrade High School
Attended trainings: “Seven Stars” bartender training and other trainings in the field of bartending and knowledge of distillates: ice carving, tequila, gin, whiskey and rum.
Branislav is one of the founders of the Association of bartenders “Bartenders710“, in which he is also an active lecturer, both in Belgrade and in Novi Sad.
He participated in the Finlandia Cup international competition in 2012, and he is a judge at bartending competitions, as well as national brandy evaluations.