Wine Girl

Author(s): Victoria James

Food & Wine

An affecting memoir from a young sommelier, struggling to make her way into the glamorous but notoriously toxic restaurant world.


At just twenty-one, Victoria James became America's 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 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.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780349726267
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
  • : UNKNOWN
  • : 0.3
  • : February 2020
  • : 2.7 Centimeters X 23.4 Centimeters X 15.4 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Victoria James
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 352