Wine Girl. Victoria James. 2020.

Aged thirteen, Victoria James started her first job in a diner in New Jersey.

Aged nineteen, Victoria was serving sugary Cosmopolitans in a restaurant off Broadway.

Aged twenty-one, Victoria was named the US’s youngest sommelier, working in Michelin-starred restaurants, serving the finest of wines to pair with spectacular foods. 

The groping patrons she learned to handle, but behind the scenes, the world of high dining was a mess of fracticious relationships and unacknowledged abuse. It would take hitting rock bottom for Victoria to find her way back to the industry she loves. 

Wine Girl is the memoir of a young woman breaking free from her traumatic childhood. It’s the story of overcoming the notoriously corrosive restaurant industry, and of the restorative power of a glass of wine with friends