Meet the sommelier... Philipp Reinstaller
Decanter speaks to the head sommelier at Mauro Colagreco...
Winner of the 2024 IWSC/UKSA UK Sommelier of the Year award, Reinstaller was born in 1993 in Austria. After studying tourism at high school, he moved to Munich in 2013 to work at Michelin two-star Tantris. Three years later, Reinstaller joined Dinner by Heston Blumenthal in London (also two Michelin stars), where he worked with Stefan Neumann MS and Vincenzo Arnese for nearly five years. During this time, he was promoted to assistant head sommelier, and achieved the SSA Master Sake Sommelier title. In 2021, he moved to Trivet (two stars) as head sommelier, passing the Master Sommelier Advanced exam the same year. In 2023, he joined the opening team of Raffles London at the OWO as the head sommelier for Mauro Colagreco.