Thomas Rydberg

Vin & Spiritusnørd

English

Qualifications:

Owner and Chief Editor, DinVinGuide (Your wine guide)

Owner and editor for the leading magazine in Denmark about wine. 5-6 issues every year and approx. 100 pages.

Owner and Chief Editor, DinWhiskyGuide Magazine

Owner and editor for the leading magazine in Denmark about spirits. 5-6 issues every year and approx. 100 pages.

Owner and Chief Editor for the Danish winegude VinGuiden

The yearly guide consists of more than 400 pages and ratings of more than 3500 wines.

2008-2022 Wine Editor, Ekstra Bladet and ekstrabladet.dk/vin

Responsible for all wine and spirit editorials in the newspaper and on the wine/spirits site of the newspaper.

Editor and owner of spritnyt.com

I started in 2018 and today run one of the leading wine & spirit sites in Denmark.

Wine event responsible

Have done a number of the largest wine and spirits fairs in Denmark.

Teaching in wine and spirits

Teach on the Danish WSET school in level 3.

Teaching wine knowledge in the Danish retail

Has also done several Master classes for wine clubs.

Judging:

Have judged many years in:

“Concours Mondial de Bruxelles”, ”International Wine Challenge” and Mondus Vino.

Senior judge in the wine competition “Jumbo” in Argentina.

Judge in “Concours Grenache de Monde” in Perpignan

Judge in “Best Riesling” in Neustadt

Sake Selection in Japan

Danish championship of wine

Education

Have a WSET Diploma level 4 from London and started on Master of Wine  in London. Passed stage 1 and stopped during stage 2.

MBA in strategy and marketing from Copenhagen Business School and a journalism bachelor degree from Danish School of Journalism

Others

Member of Circle of Winewriters in London since 2011

Danish Champion in Blindtasting 2023 and Bronze medal in World Championship in Blindtasting 2023 in France.