421: Sommelier Victoria James is a Rosé Believer

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

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🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Victoria James is the Wine Director of Piora restaurant, in New York City's West Village, and the co-author of "Drink Pink: A Celebration of Rosé."

Victoria discusses her shift from diner waitress to fine dining sommelier, and opens up about the process of co-authoring a book with a new boyfriend. This episode will take you to all sorts of unexpected places, including Piemonte's Saluzzo, a lunch table in Provence, into a legendary Lower Manhattan wine cellar, and ringside for a knife fight at a Greek diner.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Victor Victoria James was on a show of Drink Pink, a celebration of Rosie a new book that she has co-authored.
0:29.5	Hello, how are you?
0:30.5	I am great, how are you?
0:31.9	Very nice to see you. And you as you as well sir so where did you grow up
0:34.8	so I was born in silver spring Maryland right outside of DC then moved to
0:40.4	northern Virginia and then New Jersey and then New York. Yeah, we moved around a lot. People
0:47.7	used to joke that my family, that they were gypsies. My dad...
0:51.6	Did you have a wagon? We did actually have a little red wagon, but not good for travel.
0:57.0	Any cool dancing? That was mostly my brother. He had the moves, for sure. The chicken dance I think was big in the 90s. It was, yeah. Roger Ruggins. the around a lot and we also spend some time overseas. Whereabouts? In Romania.
1:15.6	So you really truly wear a gypsy then? Isn't that where gypsy's come from?
1:20.0	But you know once I was there I realized that wow I am definitely not a gypsy these people are totally misinformed
1:26.3	But I don't I don't think people really appreciated that anyway then Thailand which was completely different, much warmer, and then back to the East Coast, to New York.
1:37.0	What brought the family back to New York? I mean, what was going on then all the second?
1:40.0	My parents split when I was younger and it was sort of like this custody battle if you will and then eventually we settled with my dad and that brought us to New York.
1:50.0	When was the first restaurant experience?
1:52.0	My first restaurant experience was when I was 13.
1:55.0	We were not only moving all around, but we had very little money.
2:00.0	So, of course as a kid, there are things you want want and when your parents don't have money to give you
2:05.8	You're like man gotta start making a living so well actually prior to this I had a very successful pet sitting business in the neighborhood.
2:15.0	And then I decided to go legal and I actually was looking forward to my 13th birthday because that's when you can legally work in restaurants. So I got a job as a diner
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