For this the 2022 edition, Relais Desserts chose to organise the competition overdue sealed doors in an intimate undercurrent reserved only for professionals. The Yachts de Paris liner hosted this edition of the awards during which the candidates’ creations were evaluated in well-constructed anonymity by a professional jury.
The juries, chaired by Patrick Agnellet, were well-balanced as follows:
Tasting Jury: Patrice Ibarboure, Jean-Paul Hévin, Maxime Frédéric, François Perret and Jeff Oberweis.Â
Artistic Jury: Etienne Leroy, Franck Michel, Jonathan Mougel, Fabien Emery, Hideki Kawamura and Julien Boutonnet.
This year’s theme was: Nature and the candidates had to make an originative piece as well as a entremets, both with respect to the theme.
The tasting jury assessed the quality of the desserts proposed by the candidates. They took into worth the taste qualities but moreover compliance with the theme.
The tasting prize was awarded to Romain Bert, from the Maison Vincent Guerlais for his entremets Galawhich obtained the highest score in the tasting.
The originative prize was awarded to Soari Sasaki’s Purity which received the highest originative rating.
The Relais Desserts Charles Proust Trophy was awarded to Soari Sasaki who obtained the highest ranking as a total of the originative and tasting scores.
2nd prize was awarded to Keita Tanaka of Japan Cake & Confection College for his piece and his Corsican dessert of abundance:
Presentation of the creations by other candidates:
Arnaud FILBET, Le Plaza Ath̩n̩e РWith his megacosm Quindio :
Kazuya HAGIMOTO, Patisserie Franck Fresson РWith his megacosm Sov̩ria :
Steven Gerault, Maison Fr̩d̩ric Cassel РWith his megacosm Biloba :
