This Wine Has Resting Bitch Face — Nabilah Rawji

Podcast: Tasting Notes Toronto by Insider Wine · Alex Abbott Boyd

Opublikowano: 2026-08-19

What happens when a field biologist watches Somm on Netflix and decides to become a sommelier? Nabilah Rawji was supposed to be a field biologist — the kind who spends 12-hour days hiking through the Amazon. Then a family stroke changed her plans, a nonprofit job disappeared, and a Netflix documentary pointed her toward a career she’d never considered. What followed is one of Toronto wine’s great scrappy origin stories: 60 cold messages to strangers, two replies, multiple restaurant jobs, and a rapid climb from zero to Advanced Sommelier. We get into what Somm doesn’t show y...