FINE Magazines

Essi Avellan MW / Editor

-       Founding member of FINE publications and Tastingbook

-       Finland’s first Master of Wine; the Nordic countries’ first female Master of Wine (2007).

-       An internationally renowned wine writer and authority on champagne

-       Editor; FINE Champagne magazine – the world’s only specialist magazine on champagne, Scandinavian FINE Wine Magazine, European FINE Wine Magazine

-       Wine writer; FINE magazines, The World of Fine Wine, Decanter, TONG

-       Author; Matka Champagneen, Parhaat samppanjat and The 1000 Finest Wines Ever Made. She has also updated and expanded Tom Stevenson’s award-winning “sparkling wine bible”, Christie’s World Encyclopedia of Champagne and Sparkling Wine, and its third edition.

-       Wine judge; in FINE magazines; the World of Fine Wine tasting group; the Decanter World Wine Awards’ Champagne panel; and at Champagne and Sparkling Wine World Championships.

-      Product chief of Silja Line’s tax free shops

-    Training; 2006 Master of Wine (Tim Derouet Memorial Award for best overall student, Madame Bollinger Award for excellence in wine tasting, Dissertation: Antithesis of Champagne: Single Vineyard Style Wines), 2002 WSET Diploma in Wines and Spirits, 2000 WSET Higher Certificate in Wines and Spirits, 1999 Master of Science in Business Administration (M.Sc. (Econ.)), Master’s The World Thesis: Corporate Brand Building through Communications for Wineries

         -    Merits: Dame Chevalier of the Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne