Debra has been working for Vintage ’59 Imports for the past 17 years. She came to wine with a varied past, having sailed around the world, lived and worked in France, ran a city-wide art program in Los Angeles, and worked both front and back of the house in restaurants. It was in restaurants in North Carolina where her wine education began as a buyer.
She moved to distribution as a salesperson and then became a sales manager before going on to run a nationwide brokerage of small French producers. From Debra’s perspective, V59 continues this thread of having a deep history and personal relationships with each of the domains it represents.