[phone]917-383-2102[/phone]
[email][email protected][/email]
Like many people, wine found me indirectly. My story goes from Wall Street to Wine Country and back.
After 10 years on Wall Street, I moved to Northern California for a break from my seven-day workweek. Eventually I returned to NYC, where I now have the opportunity to personalize wine for all of my clients. It was a long journey, but I truly love what I do – is there anything better than that? I am a classically trained pianist, competitive ballroom dancer, certified wine educator, and rookie sailor.
Gianina’s Lists:
Women winemakers
- Julie Johnson
- Elizabetta Foradori
- Maria Jose Lopez de Heredia
- Isabel Ferrando
- Kathleen Inman
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Wines I love
- Cote Rotie from Pierre Gaillard
- anything from Jean Louis Chave
- Vieux Telegraphe's Chateaneuf Du Pape
- Paolo Bea's Sagrantino de montefalco "Pagliaro"
- Giacomo Conterno "cerretta" Barolo
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California wines
- Hirsch
- Dunn
- Kistler
- Ridge
- Pahlmeyer
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Where I've lived
- Anchorage Alaska
- Springfield Missouri
- Christiana Delaware
- Hoboken New Jersey
- Santa Rosa California
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Where I've worked
- JPMorgan
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Goldman Sachs
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Renaissance Technologies
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Foley Family Wines
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Westwood Estate Wines
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Sailing terms you need to know
- Halyard
- Apparent wind
- Jib
- Mainsail
- Tack
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Little known facts
- Our sailboat is the one in Romancing the Stone
- I almost went to university for a music degree
- I'm allergic to cats
- I have a very intense fear of goats
- My harvest nickname is "indoor cat"
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Restaurants that are special to me
- L'Artusi
- French Laundry
- Boulevard
- Fresh
- Scopa
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Where I've traveled in the last year
- Paris
- the Amalfi Coast
- Puerto Vallarta
- Iceland
- Rome
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Ballroom dances I compete in
- Rumba
- Cha cha
- Samba
- Paso Doble
- Jive
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Favorite piano pieces
- Debussy's Arabesque #1
- Chopin's Nocturne #1 in B flat Minor
- Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2 in C Minor
- Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
- Mozart Piano Sonata #11 in A, "alla turca"
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