449: Training to Be the World's Best Sommelier with Arvid Rosengren

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🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Arvid Rosengren is the Wine Director of Legacy Records, the restaurant in Manhattan. He won the World's Best Sommelier title in 2016.

Arvid shares his memories of growing up in a household of limited means, and what that brought later in his life to his attitude as a competitor and a working sommelier. He recalls his wine studies in Sweden, and his work in restaurants in both Denmark and Sweden before his move to New York. He also recounts the process of winning the World's Best Sommelier Competition, and what he did to train and compete in that event. Now looking back, Arvid reveals some of his thoughts about sommelier competitions as well.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the Beverage Business.
0:06.7	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:07.7	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Harvard Rosengren, the wine director of Legacy Records in Manhattan.
0:30.7	Hello sir, how are you?
0:31.8	I'm well, thank you. Very nice to see you. So you grew up in a few
0:35.8	different locations in the south of Sweden. I was born in a town called Malmo.
0:40.1	We moved around quite a bit as a kid. By age 10 I lived 11 different places I think but
0:46.0	eventually came back to Malmo and that's where I spent my teenage years.
0:50.3	And you had two siblings. Two siblings.
0:53.0	One sister was two years younger and a younger brother, seven years younger than me.
0:58.0	What was it like growing up in that household?
1:00.0	For the most part, it was great.
1:02.0	I mean, loving loving fantastic parents. I would say that no one in
1:12.1	Sweden as such grows up poor. There's no like real poverty, but we certainly
1:19.3	had periods where economy wasn't great. You know, we went through a bad house purchase in the early 90s and troubling times in that sense
1:29.0	when my little brother was born, so there was some troubling sort of hard decisions for the family to make so
1:33.8	it was not a luxurious upbringing by any means so gastronomy and wine was
1:39.1	certainly not something that was part of my upbringing as such there were a good
1:42.2	times too my upbringing as such. There were good times too. My father was such kind of a, not an
1:46.1	artistic type as such, but he has a full-time job now, but never did. It was always like this project and that
1:51.4	project and this project. So it was and there were good times and there were
1:54.3	bad times but all in all a very loving caring family yeah.
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