Published on November 11, 2024 at 12:42 p.m. / Modified on November 11, 2024 at 1:33 p.m.
“I taste between 40 and 60 bottles in a normal working day,” she says quietly, and is asked to repeat anyway, just to make sure it’s not a slip of the tongue. But yes, Pascaline Lepeltier tastes everything she serves to her customers at the Chambers restaurant in New York, and it is therefore a daily fiesta for her taste buds. How does she cope with all this? We have memories of tastings from which we came out almost lying down after a good dozen tests, even without swallowing everything. “First of all, I hate being drunk. And I learned to spit, no choice,” she explains, showing that the relationship with alcohol can be healthy, despite the danger that constantly lurks. Better yet: it can also become an art.
It was an incredible emotion that propelled her into this universe: a sip of Château d’Yquem 1937, “its blue bottle, we could still see the bubbles, and there, it was the higher degree of fullness in the experience of tasting,” she remembers. Enough for her to change career paths, and passion did the rest – as did her keen competitive spirit. In 2018, she won the competition for best sommelier in France, the most fascinating of which remains the blind tasting: the candidates must identify the region, the appellation, the vintage and even the name of the estate and the winemaking techniques. production.
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