CONTRIBUTORS
JUSTIN LEE, NEW YORK
SOMMELIER, ZUMA NEW YORK
WWW.ZUMARESTAURANT.COM
Justin has been in the hospitality industry for over three years now, working for companies such
as Morell Wine and Company at the Rockerfeller, Mario Batali’s Lupa Osteria Romana, and
Zuma New York. He has passed his Certified Sommelier of the Court of Master, his Certified
Specialist of Wine, Certified Sake Sommelier, and is in the process of finishing up his Wine &
Spirits Education Trust Diploma with only one more class to take.
HONAMI MATSUMOTO, LONDON
FOUNDER, HOUSE OF SAKE
Honami Matsumoto is originally from Nagoya in Japan and has been working with sake for nearly
15 years and is a SSI Kikisakeshi-qualified sake sommelier, WSET-certified Sake level 3 educator
and an International Wine Challenge (IWC) Panel Judge in the sake category in 2015. Having
trained at Leith’s School of Food & Wine and Le Cordon Bleu, Honami is a qualified sommelier
and has worked at some of London’s world-renowned restaurants, including Le Gavroche, as
well as luxury wine and spirits merchant Hedonism Wines. Honami created House of Sake to
provide carefully selected accessories, events, promotion and sake education to the UK and beyond.
CHRISTINE PARKINSON, DUBAI
GROUP HEAD OF WINE, HAKKASAN GROUP
WWW.HAKKASANGROUP.COM
@HAKKASANWINE
Christine wrote her first restaurant sake list in 2007, and been a sake judge since then. Described as
“one of the most creative wine buyers in the UK” by Jancis Robinson MW, she has won numerous
awards including ‘IWC Sake Contributor 2012’. In 2013 she launched the first sake course for
consumers in the UK, and regularly runs sake training in Hakkasan restaurants worldwide.
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