Then there was Lindsay Pomeroy, who won two awards. First for her talent as a taster, she was awarded the Bollinger Medal. She also received the Austrian Wine Marketing Board’s Outstanding Achievement Award for her overall performance across all areas of the MW examination.
Nicolas Quillé MW earned not one, not two, but THREE awards: the Villa Maria Prize for his outstanding knowledge of viticulture, the Errazuriz Award for his performance in the Business of Wine exam and the Robert Mondavi Award for his performance in all of the theory papers.