Book Launch:
One Thousand Vines
A conversation with author and award-winning sommelière Pascaline Lepeltier
Wednesday December 4, 2024
12:00 noon EST
Online
FREE
Event Overview
Join us for a very special event celebrating the launch of the most important new addition to the world of educational wine books. If you are going to have only one wine book on your shelf, this is the one to have!
About This Event:
WSG is thrilled to be welcomed by author and award-winning sommelière, Pascaline Lepeltier, in conversation with wine journalist Christina Rasmussen. Pascaline will share some of the research and unique perspectives from her ground-breaking new wine book One Thousand Vines. The English translation of this seminal book will be released on November 26, with signed copies already available now for pre-order. Pascaline's work challenges preconceived ideas about the vine and its wine. It explains where we are now, how we got here and shows us an inspiring way forward – in how grapes will be grown, made into wine, sold and enjoyed. Pascaline will share with us the inside story on how she put this book together and share some of her truly inspiring ideas and insights.
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Get Your Signed Copy of One Thousand Vines Today:
If you are going to have any one wine book on your shelf, this is THE book to have!
WSG viewers can already pre-order a signed copy of Pascaline’s book below in anticipation of the live event.
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Pre-order a signed copy of Pascaline’s book below.
One Thousand Vines is a crucial resource for understanding wine on both a global and local scale, and an essential read for anyone who loves wine.
Entwining culture, philosophy, history, and science, Pascaline Lepeltier’s One Thousand Vines is nothing short of an astonishing work of genius. This is an essential resource for understanding wine in all its marvellous complexity.
Meet Your Hosts
Pascaline Lepeltier
Author, Sommelier & Tour Instructor
Growing up in the Loire Valley and detouring from a master’s in philosophy and a career as a university teacher, Pascaline began her obsession with wine at the two star Michelin-rated L’Auberge Bretonne under celebrated Chef Jacques THOREL. Within a year, she was named both Best Loire Valley Young Sommelier and Best Brittany Sommelier. While working as Beverage Director at Rouge Tomate in Brussels, she interned at the George V in Paris under the direction of Best European Sommelier and Best World Sommelier runner-up Eric BEAUMARD. Promoted to the position of Beverage Director for the Rouge Tomate flagship in New York, she moved to Manhattan in 2009. Within months, she was named one of the five best new US sommeliers of 2011 by Wine & Spirits, one of the “New Wine Prophets” by Time Out NY, one of the “40 under 40” beverage influencers by Wine Enthusiast and called the “Natural Wine Evangelist” by Ray ISLE in Food & Wine. The NY Times prized her Rouge Tomate wine list as one of the best in NYC in 2013 and The World of Fine Wine awarded it “Best Long Wine List in the World 2017” and “Wine List of the Year 2017.”
In 2018, she became a partner in Racines NY, one of the top wine destinations in the USA. In 2022, alongside Chef Jonathan Karis, General Manager Jared David and wine guru David Lillie, she opened Chambers, a farm-to-table wine-focused restaurant in TriBeCa. She overlooks with sommelier Ellis Srubas-Giammanco a 2000+ wine list focusing on “vins de vignerons”, mostly organic, biodynamic and natural.
In 2014, Pascaline passed the Master Sommelier Diploma and in 2018, she won 2 more major titles in her homeland: she is now a laureate of “Un des Meilleurs Ouvriers de France - Sommellerie” and Best French Sommelier 2018. In January 2019, the famous French magazine La Revue du Vin de France awarded her “Personality of the Year 2019”, the first woman to be given this prestigious recognition. In 2023, she represented France in the ASI Best Sommelier in the World held in Paris. She finished 4th.
Christina Rasmussen
Wine Writer, Photographer & Conservationist
Christina Rasmussen is a Danish wine writer, photographer and passionate conservationist based in London.
She is the co-founder and Head of Content at LITTLEWINE, an online wine platform launched in April 2020. The platform aims to bring wine lovers and professionals closer to the makers and farmers behind the bottle through emotive language, photography and film.
Christina is also a speaker for both consumer and trade audiences, covering nearly every aspect of the wine world, with a particular focus on environmental aspects of viticulture. Her clients include Beaujolais, Chablis, Austrian Wine, The Real Wine Fair, The New Old World Wine Fair, Vin de France, Côtes du Rhône and Bibendum.
In May 2021, she planted a one-acre vineyard in Oxfordshire with her sister, using a massal selection of Burgundian, Jurassic and Savoyard varieties sourced from Lilian Bérillon.