In 'Wine Girl,' Taking On The Old Boys Of The Wine World

Victoria James discovered the book Wine for Dummies during her bartending days in New York, and she was hooked.

"I found myself purchasing another wine book, and another wine book — and I eventually came across this word 'sommelier,' and I Googled it, and I realized this could be a profession. You could drink wine for a living"

So she all the money she made from working in high-end restaurants to pay for wine classes, and at 21 — the legal drinking age — she became America's youngest sommelier.