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The MGM Grand Wine Team is comprised of 14 sommeliers dedicated to quality wine service and helping you discover that next transcendent bottle of wine.
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Brian Weitzman - Wine Director |
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| Born: | Foster City, California | |
| First Wine Job: | Warehouse Manager for local Distribution Company | |
| Favorite Regions: | Burgundy, Northern Rhone Valley, German Riesling | |
| Transcedent Wine: | 1990 Rousseau Ruchottes-Chambertin Clos des Ruchottes | |
| Wine Quote: | "Like a bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape, I'm fine like wine when I start to rap." - Beastie Boys |
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Harley Carbery - Joël Robuchon |
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| Born: | Victoria, BC, Canada | |
| First Wine Job: | Sommelier, Wildflower Restaurant, Whistler, BC, Canada | |
| Favorite Regions: | Champagne, Bordeaux, Burgundy | |
| Transcedent Wine: | 1982 Chateau Ducru Beaucaillou | |
| Wine Quote: | "In victory you deserve Champagne, in defeat you need it!" – Napoleon Bonaparte |
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Daniel Feldman - L'Atelier |
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| Born: | Austin, Texas | |
| First Wine Job: | The Grill at Leon Springs, San Antonio Texas | |
| Favorite Regions: | Burgundy and Piedmont | |
| Transcedent Wine: | 2008, Terroirs al Limite, Los Tosses, Priorat | |
| Wine Quote: | "I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself" - Napoleon Bonaparte |
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John Paddon - Tom Colicchio's Craftsteak |
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| Born: | Effingham County, Georgia | |
| First Wine Job: | Wine steward for the Cloister at Sea Island | |
| Favorite Regions: | Anything Spanish, especially Priorat and Rais Baixas | |
| Transcedent Wine: | 1989 Chateau Beaucastel Hommage de Jacques Perrin Chateauneuf-du-Pape | |
| Wine Quote: | "My favorite bottle is the one in front of me." - John Paddon |
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Derek Engles - Tom Colicchio's Craftsteak |
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| Born: | Poughkeepsie, N.Y. | |
| First Wine Job: | Sommelier, 2006; 677 Prime, Albany, NY | |
| Favorite Regions: | Loire Valley, Rhone Valley, Piedmont | |
| Transcedent Wine: | 1996 Luciano Sandrone Cannubi Boschis Barolo | |
| Wine Quote: | "Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy" - Henry Fielding |
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Mario de Ovando - Tom Colicchio's Craftsteak |
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| Born: | Las Vegas, Nevada | |
| First Wine Job: | Sommelier at Tom Colicchio's Craftsteak | |
| Favorite Regions: | Italy and Southern Rhone | |
| Transcedent Wine: | 1999 Valdicava Madonna del Piano Riserva Brunello di Montalcino | |
| Wine Quote: | "There is a wine for everyone" - Mario de Ovando |
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Samuel Roe - Nobhill Tavern |
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| Born: | Novato, California | |
| First Wine Job: | Sommelier - Kincaids - Norfolk, VA | |
| Favorite Regions: | Bordeaux | |
| Transcedent Wine: | 1998 Domaine J.F. Coche-Dury, Grand Cru, Corton-Charlemagne | |
| Wine Quote: | God in His goodness sent the grapes, to cheer both great and small; little fools will drink too much, and great fools not at all. - Anonymous |
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John Bolduc - Joël Robuchon |
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| Born: | Waterville, Maine | |
| First Wine Job: | Wine Director, Café Giovanni's, New Orleans | |
| Favorite Regions: | Burgundy, Tuscany and Toro & Prior at in Spain. | |
| Transcedent Wine: | 1942 DRC La Tâche | |
| Wine Quote: | ""Burgundy makes you think of silly things, Bordeaux makes you talk of them and Champagne makes you do them." - Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin |
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Danielle Grams - Pearl |
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| First Wine Job: | Midwest Wine Consultants, Volo, IL | |
| Favorite Regions: | Alsace, Rhone | |
| Transcedent Wine: | 2003 Chateau Rieussec Sauternes | |
| Wine Quote: | "In water one sees one's own face; but in wine, one beholds the heart of another" – French proverb |
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Matthew S George - Seablue |
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| First Wine Job: | Sommelier StripSteak, Mandalay Bay | |
| Favorite Regions: | Willamette Valley, Pommard, Volnay | |
| Transcedent Wine: | 1942 R. López de Heredia, Viña Tondonia | |
| Wine Quote: | "Wine in itself is an excellent thing" – Pope Pius XII Airen |
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Kathryn Hope - Shibuya |
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| First Wine Job: | Shibuya | |
| Favorite Regions: | Southern Rhone and Champagne | |
| Transcedent Wine: | 1929 Chateau d'Yquem | |
| Wine Quote: | "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" – Robert Fripp |
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Trini Bustos - Fiamma |
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| First Wine Job: | Restaurant/wine Manager, Café Del Rey, Marina Del Rey CA | |
| Favorite Regions: | Burgundy, Rhone Valley | |
| Transcedent Wine: | 2001 Domaine Romanee-Conti Grand Cru Burgandy | |
| Wine Quote: | "I don't make wine, the grapes do" – Eric Sussman, Winegrower, Radio-Coteau, Sebastopol CA |
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