Dr Gabriella Mészáros is an international wine consultant, wine writer, one-to-one wine tutor, and the first qualified WSET Diploma holder in Hungary. Her school had served as an invaluable springboard for those wishing to capitalise on the knowledge they gained in the wine industry, be it oenology, sales, hospitality, wine writing, or education. Mészáros is a deeply committed ambassador of popularising the culture of wine in general, and Hungarian wines in particular. Owing to her efforts, many amateur connoisseurs as well as winery staff and their families have mastered the secrets of Hungarian wine, pointing the way to a new generation of winemakers for a consummate balance between tradition and progress.

András Horkay is the founder and director of the Central European Wine Institute (CEWI) which provides WSET wine education courses in Hungary. He is a WSET Diploma graduate (Dip WSET) and a WSET certified wine lecturer (CE). He’s been promoting Hungarian wines and wine regions both at home and abroad since 2010. He fulfilled the position of the Chairman of the National Wine Expert Commission between 2013-2018, starting from 2016 he acts as an advisor for the Villány wine region and between 2020 and 2022 he was also an advisor to the Mátra wine region. In 2019 he was awarded the Par Excellence Lecturer title by the Hungarian Sommelier Association. Since 2022, he has been teaching at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Szeged in the field of tourism and hospitality.