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May 2019
24m 4s

El maestro del vino (The Wine Master)

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About this episode

Héctor Vergara escaped dictatorship in Chile in the 1970s and fled to Europe, where he landed in the restaurant industry. There he discovered a passion and talent for wine that led him to become the first Master Sommelier from Latin America. But his biggest impact on the world wouldn’t take place until he found his way back home, where no one even knew what a sommelier was.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3s4e9PK.

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