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SOMMELIER SPOTLIGHT Emily Wines, Fifth Floor, San Francisco David Glancy, MS, CWE

Emily Wines is the latest of a growing number of women to break into the ranks of Master Sommeliers. Until recently, the world of sommeliers really was an old-boys’ network. That started to change, however, when Britain’s Claudia Harris passed the Master Sommelier exam in 1984, becoming the first woman in the world to do so. Madeline Triffon was the first American woman to pass, and she did it on her first attempt in 1987, winning the Remi Krug Cup in recognition of that ac...

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