How Do You Become A Wine Director In New York City?
Wine is more than a drink, it is a lifestyle. It can also be a career if you find that you have a good palate and a knack for geography. Many wine directors in New York City make as much as corporate executives. They are the arbiters of taste in the great restaurants of this city of restaurants. If you think you have what it takes to become one of them, you need to start at the bottom and work your way up. Step 1 Get a job at a wine retail shop. This is an unglamorous and low-paying job, but one where you will get a great education for absolutely nothing. As a retailer in a wine shop (not a liquor store), your job is to know the inventory. That doesn’t just mean knowing where the wines are kept on the shelves, but, more importantly, what the wines taste like, and how they compare to all of the other wines in the store. A good wine store manager educates her sales staff by constantly doing tastings and having discussions about new wines that are coming in. While working there, take note
