Andres Ituarte

Andres Ituarte is a judge at the 2026 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).Andres ItuarteAndres Ituarte
Born and raised in British Columbia, Canada, Andres Ituarte has been working in the food and beverage industry since he was 19.
Originally starting out in the kitchen, he soon realised that wine was his true vocation. After googling ‘sommelier’, and finding out that there was a job where you could get paid to drink wine, he immediately signed up for wine classes through the Internatio