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DWWA judge profile: Emanuel Pesqueira

Emanuel Pesqueira is a judge at the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA)

Emanuel Pesqueira

Emanuel Pesqueira is a highly-experienced management professional with extensive expertise in food, beverage, and hospitality services.

He has held various management and Sommelier roles. These have included being the Food and Beverage Manager at The Oxford and Cambridge Club and Head Sommelier & Maître D’hôtel in the Milestone Hotel, Kensington where he was honoured with the Red Carnation Hotel Collection Sommelier of the Year Award in 2013.

Emanuel was previously Food and Beverage Operations Manager at Crowne Plaza Albert Embankment, and is now Food & Beverage Operations Manager for Edwardian Hotels, London.

Emanuel joined DWWA for the first time as a judge in 2019.

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