The Copa Jerez Forum
& Competition, the largest international gathering involving Sherry and
organised by the Consejo Regulador of
Sherry and Manzanilla in colaboration with Fedejerez, has celebrated the
closing day of the competition in the
Villamarta theatre in Jerez.
During this great gathering, the final of the VIII edition of the Copa Jerez
Competition took place, an exciting competition in which seven
international teams consisting of a chef and a sommelier prepared their menus paired with Sherry live and
simultaneously.
The winner of this VIII edition
was the team of sommelier Jonathan K
Bernsten and chef Martin G Sørensen from Denmark´s restaurant Clou* located in
the heart of Copenhagen.
The winning menú prepared for the occasion by the Danish team
consisted of three courses:
First
course: Scallop and Danish rye bread with green aromas
Wine
match: FINO (Fino Classic – Bodegas Rey Fernando de Castilla)
Main
course: Matured pigeon with a confit of citrus fruit, walnut and liver
Wine
match: OLOROSO (Oloroso Soluqua – Bodegas Barón)
Dessert: Banana, golden
butter, liquorice and olive oil
Wine
match: PEDRO XIMĖNEZ (Pedro Ximénez Tradición VOS – Bodegas Tradición)
The other prizes awarded during the competition were:
Best Somellier:
Enrique García
Albelda of Spain
Best Chef: Martin
G Sørensen
of Denmark
Best
Pairing with the starter: Tartare of scallop with wasabi, cucumber and
flavours of the sea paired with Fino (Fino Tio Pepe en rama 2019 – Bodegas
González Byass) from the United Kingdom team
Best
Pairing with the main dish: Twinning of Amontillado and Fondillón paired
with Amontillado (Amontillado 54-1ª VORS – Bodegas Osborne) from the Spanish
team
Best
Pairing with the dessert: Banana, golden butter, liquorice and olive
oil paired with Pedro Ximénez (Pedro Ximénez Tradición VOS – Bodegas Tradición)
from the Danish team
Most
creative pairing: the team from the Nomad, United States
“Special Mention” The judging panel also thought it
necessary to make a “Special Mention” to
the sommelier Kim Reisig of the Dutch restaurant Cheval Blanc* as “Sommelier of the Future”.
The panel of judges charged with making the awards on behalf of Sherry
Wines consisted of five international professionals from the worlds of wine and
gastronomy who were:
Josep
Roca: sommelier, maitre d´and co-proprietor of the famous Celler de
Can Roca***; Sarah Jane Evans:
Master of Wine, award winning wine author and journalist, co-chaiir of Decanter
World Wine Awards and president of the 2018 IMW Symposium; Franҫois Chartie: internationally considered as one of the greatest
experts on gastronomic harmonies and Worls´s Best Sommelier 1994 (Grand Prix
Sopexa); José Carlos Capel:
journalist and gastronomic critic and Beltrán Domecq; President of the
Consejo Regulador of the DOs Jerez-Xéres-Sherry and Manzanilla-Sanlúcar de
Barrameda and Vinagre de Jerez.
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