Email address: timothygoh@lesamis.com.sg

Location: Singapore

Work place: Les Amis

For the very special evening with your loved one which wine you would open: A nice bottle of Dujac Clos St Denis 1990!

Best wine bargain: Lazio’s both white and reds…

Your favorite varietal: Pinot Noir

Best aphrodisiac: A 1978 Romanee-Conti!

Last bite on earth: Roasted Pigeon; Medium rare please. Or otherwise cooked Sous Vide!

Adventurous food and wine pair: Pan fried John Dory plated on a base coated with French Onion Soup, served with a nice Aloxe Corton 1er Cru, by  Follin Arbelet.

Short bio:

As a sommelier, Timothy’s job requires him to live, breathe and taste wines. This hobby, which eventually turned into a passion and career for this young man started when he was 21. Amazed at how the cognoscenti could describe a wine so gracefully, he went on to explore the different complexities of wines during his time in SHATEC.

His burgeoning interest saw him winning the Shatec Austrade Wine Education Awards (SAWEA) in 2002. Upon graduation from SHATEC in 2003, he joined the historical Raffles Hotel as the Sommelier of their fine dining room, The Raffles Grill, where he further honed his palate for wines.  During the 2004 World Gourmet Summit Awards of Excellence, the F&B professionals of Singapore gave Timothy their vote of confidence by awarding him the Bodegas Torres Wine Scholarship. Timothy stayed in the Miguel Torres winery in Spain for a month to learn the ins and outs of the vineyard.

In 2008 & 2009, he was voted the Sommelier of the Year at the World Gourmet Summit Awards of Excellence, continuing a tradition that saw this award going to sommeliers working in the Group since the award’s inception. Suffice it to say, his is a career that requires passion and hard work, but with plenty of rewards to show for it.

After a two year hiatus to fulfil his National Service obligation, Timothy, drawn by one of the best cellars in Asia, joined the Les Amis Group’s flagship restaurant in 2006. He immediately rose through the ranks with his diligence and thirst for knowledge. It certainly helps that the directors of Les Amis encourage their staff to, quite literally, taste the good life. Sommeliers are often despatched to wine producing regions around France to learn about wines first hand from the winemakers.

Today as the Maitre D’ and Chef Sommelier of the Group’s flagship Les Amis Restaurant in Shaw Centre, Timothy is the custodian of the restaurant’s $5 million wine collection. When he is not overseeing the wine programmes of the Group’s other restaurants, he enjoys sports such as tennis and jogging.