Grant Reynolds Age, Wiki, Bio, Net Worth, Married, Girlfriend Wife

Name Grant Reynolds

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB May 1, 1988. As of 2024, he is around 36 years old.

Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

Grant Reynolds is an American sommelier and restaurateur.
He was also featured in the Food & Drink category on the ‘Forbes 30 Under 30’ list in 2018, at the age of 29.

Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education

Grant Reynolds was born on May 1, 1988, in Lake Placid, New York. His mother is Christine Reynolds, a retired nurse.
Grant has an elder sister, Emily Reynolds Bergh. Through his sister, he is the uncle of two nieces and two nephews, with another on the way in 2020.

He grew up in his home on Hillcrest Avenue in Lake Placid.
Grant attended the Lake Placid High School.
During high school, Grant spent a year in Piemonte, Italy, as an exchange student. His time there introduced him to the art of winemaking.

Upon returning from Italy, Grant moved to Boulder, Colorado, where he attended the University of Colorado in Boulder. He studied film studies and Italian.
After working in Burgundy, France, and Copenhagen, Denmark, Grant currently resides in New York City, where he moved in 2012.

Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :

Grant started working in the restaurant industry with his first summer job at the age of 13 at a Lake Placid ice cream parlor. He also worked peeling garlic and seeding tomatoes at Italian restaurant Villa Vespa, followed by internships at Mr. Mike’s Pizza and the Lake Placid Lodge.
While studying in Boulder, Colorado, Grant worked at Frasca Food & Wine, where he trained under prestigious sommelier Bobby Stuckey.
After finishing his stint in Colorado, Grant went to work the harvest at the Domaine Dujac in Burgundy, France.

He then spent some months working for the internationally renowned Noma restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark.
In New York City he worked for Grand Cru Wine Consulting, and then helped open Charlie Bird in February 2013 in the trendy SoHo area with Robert Bohr, a skilled sommelier he’d met in Burgundy, and chef Ryan Hardy. Grant was a sommelier and wine director at Charlie Bird.
Grant also worked at Italian restaurants Pasquale Jones and Legacy Records, as well as a wine shop Parcelle.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

Grant joined forces with his high school best friend, Artur Novoselsky, to create the Hillcrest Fund. Hillcrest Fund is a scholarship fund for Lake Placid High School students who wish to study in creative fields.
On account of his contributions, Grant was asked to speak at the high school graduation of the Lake Placid High School in June 2019.

In 2012, he passed the Advanced Sommelier exam at the age of twenty-four, which made him the youngest person to pass the test!
He is a partner at Delicious Hospitality, the group managing Charlie Bird, Pasquale Jones, and Legacy Records.
In 2018, Grant was included on the ‘Forbes 30 Under 30’ list, in the Food & Drink category.