Wine Down
Where Orlando|May - June 2018

Wine Bar George opens this spring at Disney Springs. Offering small plates, familystyle entrees and wine by the glass or bottle, it promises to be a hotspot in short order. We sat down with its creator, Master Sommelier George Miliotes, to learn more about his vision, what’s next, and what drives him to share his love of wine with others.

Brooke Fehr
Wine Down

Wine Down

In the 1990s, George Miliotes helped put Disney’s California Grill on the culinary map. After a time away creating the critically-acclaimed wine program at Darden’s Seasons 52, he was the perfect pick to open a wine bar at the newly launched Disney Springs.

ON HIS BACKGROUND

I’m not the five year planner, so a little bit of the wine thing was pieces falling into place. I didn’t know when I was 13, and my dad took me into the wine room for my first job — cleaning the racks, making sure the bottles had prices on them — that was helping my growth in the wine industry, but by the time I was 16, I could explain a German wine label to anyone. When you’re a kid, you just take it all in.

ON BECOMING A MASTER SOMMELIER

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