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St Helena, California, United States

The Charter Oak is the casual concept from Chef Christopher Kostow of The Restaurant at Meadowood. My role as the Wine Director is to oversee and manage all aspects of the beverage program as well as the team of sommeliers. The duties required by the program included: meeting monthly sales goals, purchasing wines for the list and by the glass under a.

Stony Hill Vineyard is a legendary Napa winery that was purchased by Lawrence Wine Estates at the end 2020. I was hired as Hospitality and Education Manager with the direct responsibility to engineer a new sales program from the ground up, to hire and train winery hosts to sell wine directly to consumers on the winery property and to oversee and report all.

Napa, California, Stati Uniti

The Restaurant at Meadowood is Chef Christopher Kostow’s three Michelin starred flagship in Napa Valley. The Restaurant focused on a daily ten to fourteen course tasting menu built around its five-acre farm in St. Helena. I was one of two sommeliers at The Restaurant and I was involved in every aspect of the wine program including: sourcing and curating.

Greater Denver Area

Tavernetta Denver was the first Frasca Food and Wine Inc. off-site expansion outside of Boulder. I helped open the restaurant as a sommelier. Opening duties included writing staff training manuals pertaining to wine and service in general, designing the layout of the wine cellar, and three weeks of staff training through all forms of service prior to.

Frasca Food and Wine is the creation of Master Sommelier Bobby Stuckey and James Beard award winning chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson. The restaurant focuses on the food and wine from the region of Friuli-Venezia-Giulia as well as encompassing various other Northern Italian elements. The Frasca model for front of house employees is that everyone must start.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Philosophy And Mathematics, Graduated May 2014

Thomas Aquinas College is a small liberal arts college outside of Los Angeles, California. The College’s challenging curriculum is based.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy

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