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Tag: expensive wines

Posted inWine

Vine Social: If a Sommelier Is Just Recommending Expensive Bottles of Wine … He or She Is Not Doing His or Her Job

by Katie Finn April 17th, 2018December 16th, 2020

When I took my first sommelier exam 15 years ago (gasp!), it’s safe to say that most people didn’t know what a sommelier was. In fact, I once told someone I was a sommelier, and not being familiar with that word, he was convinced I was trying to tell him I was Somalian. Fast-forward over […]

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