Victoria James is the Executive Director of Beverage and a Partner at Gracious Hospitality Management, the restaurant group behind Michelin-starred COTE in NYC, Miami, Singapore, and soon Vegas, the ...

After becoming American’s youngest certified sommelier at 21, winning numerous wine competitions and running the beverage programs at two Michelin-starred restaurants in her 20s, Victoria James could ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about travel and food. So I love forks in the road. As for red wine or white, James declared her allegiance in 2017 when ...

When beverage director and sommelier Victoria James first proposed her memoir to her agent, the world was a different place. #MeToo hadn’t yet happened, carving open a space for culture-wide ...

Victoria James has worked in restaurants since she was thirteen. She was certified as a sommelier when she was twenty-one, making her the youngest sommelier in the country. She was Food & Wine’s ...