Few people get to meet their idols. But when Samuel Ndichu walked into an auditorium last year where Marc Almert, world’s best sommelier, was seated, he was unsure whether to allow himself to be consumed by a brisk moment of ecstasy or to still himself.
The award-winning sommelier was in South Africa for a wine waiters’ competition. Almert, 29, his role model in wine circles, was on the panel of the judges who would review his presentation.
