Chase Sinzer ’11 Receives Michelin Sommelier Award

Bard alumnus, restaurateur, and sommelier Chase Sinzer ’11 has been awarded the Michelin Guide New York 2024 Sommelier Award, alongside Ellis Srubas-Giammanco, who is the wine director of Sinzer's raw bar restaurant Penny, which he opened earlier this year in New York City. After serving as wine director of the two-Michelin star restaurant The Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare, Sinzer opened Claud and Penny, overseeing both wine programs. In conversation with Michelin Guide, Sinzer discussed sustainability in their wine menus, wines worth splurging on, and the advice he has for aspiring sommeliers. “Seek out as much wine as humanly possible to develop your own style,” says Sinzer. “So when someone asks a question, you've accumulated an encyclopedic notion of the aesthetics and business of wine that you have a quick, formulated idea of what your wine list represents to you and what you want people to get from it.”

Post Date: 12-17-2024