12 of London’s best female sommeliers and wine buyers

Based on our recently published guide to London’s top 50 most powerful sommeliers, we have picked out the top female sommeliers and wine buyers currently behind the wine lists at London’s top restaurants for wine.

The guide followed on from our Wine List Confidential Top 100 restaurants for wine in London – which ranks restaurants on the strength of its wine list alone – in May last year.

The people profiled in this latest guide have been ordered loosely according to the rankings of restaurants in last year’s Wine List Confidential.

Here, we have picked out the females that made that list. In other words their contribution to London’s on-trade, and their wine list at their respective establishments, was deemed to be among the best in the capital.

For more on the methodology and reasoning behind our top 50 sommeliers, click here.

You can see a full list of the top 50, along with a profile on their career and short Q&As on their life on the floor by clicking here.

Click through to see the women behind some of the best wine lists in London….

NB: Please note, this is a reproduction of profiles published in the Top 50 Most Influential Sommeliers 2019 guide. All roles were correct at time of publication (February), but are subject to change.

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