Interview with the World’s best Sommelier on Designing a Profitable Wine List

Insights from Arvid Rosengren — recently crowned the World’s no.1 sommelier, on how he builds a profitable wine list.

Arvid Rosengren — recently crowned the world’s profitable Sommelier has worked hard to get here, bettering himself continually with theoretical learning and blind tastings. If you think it is easy to become a sommelier and rank the first in the world at that, think again! It involves naming cryptic grapes that make up a Bulgarian wine, naming Germany’s wine regions in reverse-size order and not the least — pleasing your customers’ requests, especially in delicate situations.

In an interview with Decanter magazine, he mentioned that one of the important lessons he has learnt as a sommelier is to be humble and listen to his guests. And humble he has stayed. Arvid, born in Sweden, lives in SoHo and works as a Wine Director at Charlie Bird, which he describes as having a “fun and friendly atmosphere”, just his kind of place. Here, they wear sneakers with button-downs, listen to hip-hop and drink old wines.

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