Frank Jacobs Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, NH, NL

Amsterdam En Omgeving, Nederland

Since 1992 I am a senior editor of Perswijn, the largest and most influential wine-magazine in The Netherlands. For this magazine I not only wrote articles about French wines and areas like Bordeaux, Burgundy, Alsace, Roussillon and Languedoc, but also about, for instance Italy, Portugal, Australia, South-Africa, The United States The Netherlands and.

Amsterdam En Omgeving, Nederland

Since January 2003 I am the director of my own firm Wine PEP Talk, in which the word PEP stands for Publications, Education and Presentations, from where I produce all my wine related activities.

Amsterdam En Omgeving, Nederland

After the start of the strategic cooperation between AAG and Winefield's Auctioneers I became a senior consultant for Winefield's.

Leidschendam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Chairman of the Examination Board for the official qualification and title ‘SDEN Registered Wine Lecturer’.

Maarn

Chairman of the Board at De Wijnacademie (The Dutch Wine Academy) – where I worked as a lecturer of analytical (blind) tasting from August 2003 till January 2016. The Wijnacademie is the only institute that provides a curriculum to become Vinoloog and Magister Vini, the two highest wine diplomas in The Netherlands.

Leidschendam

Chairman of the Board at SDEN (Stichting DrankenExamens en Normering), a foundation that appoints and controls all examination committees (levels 1 to 5) most importantly in the field of wine, but also concerning beer and liquor, in The Netherlands.

Maarn

From August 2003 till January 2016, I had an appointment as lecturer of analytical (blind)tasting at De Wijnacademie, (The Dutch Wine Academy) for the course to become Vinoloog. Every year some 150 students, most of them working in high class restaurants or in the wine trade start with this course in order to try to get this highly regarded diploma. Next.

Amsterdam En Omgeving, Nederland

From January 2003 till May 2012 I was the wine expert and wine valuer for AAG, Amsterdam Auctioneers Glerum (later named: Arts & Antiques Group), an auction house that, after Christie’s, was second in the field of wine at that moment in The Netherlands and organized two important wine auctions in Amsterdam every year. In May 2012 AAG started a strategic.

Den Haag En Omgeving, Nederland

From March 2000 I have had an appointment as lecturer of Wine Studies at Hotelschool Den Haag in The Hague, an International Institute for Hospitality Management, which is considered to be one of the leading schools of this type in the world. Because of the expansion of my own firm Wine PEP Talk, I asked the Board of Directors to terminate my contract in.

Education record

I never had any kind of professional education in wine. I learned it by reading and tasting a lot and visiting wine regions over the past.

Education record