Xavier Thuizat, a former student of the Tain-l’Hermitage High Hotel School, currently head sommelier at L’Écrin, a restaurant at the Crillon Hotel in Paris, is also the best sommelier in France and the best sommelier in France. He just received the 2024 Michelin Sommelier Award this Monday, March 18.
Consecration to the sommelier who received this award with his “promo classmate”, Val d’Isère sommelier from Hôtel Les Barmes de L’Ours, Magalie Delalex. And the former Drôme man whispered with a smile: “And yet our teacher said we did not invent hot water…”
Remember that Xavier Thuizat sponsored the 30thE the year of the competition for the best student sommelier in wines and spirits in France, which took place in Tain-l’Hermitage last May.