428: Swedish Sommelier Totte Steneby on Restaurant Success and Disaster

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🗓️ 5 September 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Totte Steneby is the Beverage Manager of Portal Restaurant in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also an importer of Burgundy wine into Sweden, and a European brand ambassador for both the Sandhi and Domaine de la Cote wineries of California.

A former child actor, Totte Steneby discusses his sommelier career, having worked at a number of top restaurants in Sweden. He shares some of the difficult moments he has experienced during restaurant work as well, including one hard opening gone wrong. Totte also describes the Swedish wine market, which has dramatically changed in recent years.

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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. Tote Stenneby, the Sommeier in Sweden's Portal restaurant in Stockholm.
0:28.8	Hello sir, how are you?
0:29.8	I'm very good.
0:30.8	Thank you.
0:31.8	Very nice to see you. Thanks for having me.
0:33.2	So you had an interesting background as a child actor in theater.
0:37.8	Yeah, both theater and films.
0:40.4	In 95, I did my first real acting job in films.
0:44.0	They came to school to film auditions for television commercial.
0:48.0	And I got a part in that and the same audition tapes circulated for a few different films.
0:55.0	Without doing any more auditions I got picked up for a couple of different films in the
1:01.6	mid 90s, so 96, 97, I did a few films about teen private detective
1:09.1	kind of thing, which was, I mean, super fun.
1:12.2	And also I think was a big part of how I kind of grew up and was being raised in the early teens.
1:18.8	My parents were separated and working with films so there was like six of us in my age and everyone else is
1:28.6	an adult you know doing this as a serious job
1:33.2	it got me
1:35.2	i wouldn't say connected but you know raised by
1:38.6	a large group of adults early on
1:41.8	but it also feels like with both theater and food, it was an opportunity for you to have a
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