num_pages: 336
description: An affecting memoir from the countrys youngest sommelier tracing her path through the glamorous but famously toxic restaurant world At just twenty-one the age when most people are starting to drink (well legally at least) Victoria James became the countrys youngest sommelier at a Michelin-starred restaurant. Even as Victoria was selling bottles worth hundreds and thousands of dollars during the day passing sommelier certification exams with flying colors and receiving distinction from all kinds of press there were still groping patrons bosses who abused their role and status and a trip to the hospital emergency room.It would take hitting bottom at a new restaurant and restorative trips to the vineyards where she could feel closest to the wine she loved for Victoria to re-emerge clear-eyed and passionate and a proud wine girl of her own Michelin-starred restaurant.Exhilarating and inspiring Wine Girl is the memoir of a young woman breaking free from an abusive and traumatic childhood on her own terms; an ethnography of the glittering high-octane but notoriously corrosive restaurant industry; and above all a love letter to the restorative and life-changing effects of good wine and good hospitality.
language: English
title: Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier
publisher: Ecco