A new sommelier will be part of the team of the Orient-Express Peru group, which has six properties in Lima and Cusco. This is the Argentine Claudia Eraso, external corporate consultant for the 6 properties in Lima and Cusco.
The professional studied at the Argentine School of Sommelier in Buenos Aires and began her career as a Sommelier in 2002 at the prestigious Park Hyatt Mendoza hotel in Argentina, where she designed a wine list that was awarded as the best in the country by the magazine specialized in the subject, Wine Spectator.
Later he worked for three years in the renowned restaurant organization Astrid y Gastón in its various restaurants located in Bogotá, Madrid and Buenos Aires. His experience includes his work in wine distribution companies, as a teacher in chefs' colleges and in the magazine Dionisios where he currently writes a column.
To date, Claudia has presented the wine list of Palacio Nazarenas, the luxury hotel recently opened by Orient-Express in the city of Cusco, which is focused on representing the different terroirs of Latin America and at the same time accompanying the modern gastronomic proposal of Virgilio Martínez, chef of the hotel's Senzo restaurant.
Orient-Express Hotels Ltd., directs and owns or co-owns 47 companies operating in 25 countries, 35 of them correspond to hotels located across five continents, from the Cipriani Hotel in Venice to the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro.
In Peru they have 5 hotels: Miraflores Park Hotel in Lima, Hotel Monasterio, Hotel Río Sagrado and Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge in Cusco and Las Casitas del Colca in Arequipa. The company is also co-owner and runs PeruRail, which operates the Cusco-Machu Picchu train service, the same one that is used by almost every tourist who comes to Peru.
