Wine & Beverage

Watson Brown

Travel Designer | The Legacy Untold Travel
Something as simple as finding time to sit down and grab a coffee before service begins or taking a walk outside when it's nice goes so far. Being able to step outside the four walls of the restaurant you are operating offers a surprising amount of clarity. The conversation that stems from these times is often the most insightful.

Experience

2023 - Present
Travel Designer
The Legacy Untold TravelNew York, NY
2022 - 2023
Corporate Wine Director
2021 - 2022
Wine Director
2017 - 2021
Head Sommelier
2020 - 2020
Program Operations
Rethink FoodNew York, NY
2020 - 2021
Wine Director
2015 - 2017
Head Sommelier

Education

2018 - 2018
Advanced Sommelier
Telecommunications B.A, Spanish B.A.
Indiana UniversityBloomington, IN

Advice from Watson Brown

Quotes about career path, skills, and teamwork from an industry leader.
Cedric Nicaise gave me a piece of advice that’s always stuck with me:
"Always try to surround yourself with people who push you. When you stop to look around and there's no one pushing you, maybe it's your turn to pull someone else up."
When hiring, I look for people who care and take pride in their work.
Literally just about everything else can be taught, but you can't teach someone to care to be better than they were the day before.
I find inspiration in a lot of artistic fields outside of hospitality, great authors, musicians, filmmakers -- people who are passionate about their craft and have a strong voice.
Italo Calvino, Thom Yorke, and Paul Thomas Anderson all come immediately to mind.
When it comes to software that I rely heavily on, this is probably a pretty obvious one in my field, Binwise.
For overseeing multiple wine programs there's really no more useful tool.
A short meditation before bed is a must for me.
It helps to calm my mind from the frenetic energy of service and de-stress before this most crucial period of the day. There's tons of scientific evidence behind the benefits of mindfulness practices and I'd urge everyone to look into adopting some form of it into their daily routine.

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