Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America’s Youngest Sommelier Audiobook (Free)

An affecting memoir through the country’s youngest sommelier, tracing her route through the glamorous but famously toxic restaurant world

At only twenty-one, this when most people are starting to beverage (well, legally at least), Victoria Adam became the country’s youngest sommelier at a Michelin-starred restaurant. Even while Victoria was offering bottles worthy of hundreds and thousands during the day, transferring sommelier certification exams with flying colors, and receiving differentiation from about Wine Gal: The Road blocks, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America’s Youngest Sommelier all kinds of press, there have been still groping patrons, bosses who abused their role and status, and a vacation the hospital emergency room.

It would take hitting bottom at a new cafe and restorative vacations towards the vineyards where she could experience closest to your wine she loved for Victoria to re-emerge, clear-eyed and passionate, and a proud “wine lady” of her own Michelin-starred restaurant.

Exhilarating and motivating, Wine Girl is the memoir of a young woman breaking free from an abusive and traumatic child years on her own personal 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 ramifications of good wine and good hospitality.