Wine & Spirits - October 2019 - 15
Mark
Guillaudeu
Commis
OAKLAND, CA
by Sydney Love
Mark Guillaudeu beGan his career in
Washington DC shortly after earning an MA
in the History of Religions from the University
of Virginia in 2012. He was helping to open
a local market and café and decided to enroll
in a WSET class to learn more about wine.
Soon, he'd left the grocery business behind
and moved into restaurants as a sommelier at
The Curious Grape. He set a goal to work in a
Michelin-starred dining room, moving to San
Francisco in 2016 to take a sommelier position
at Roka Akor, a Japanese steakhouse.
While he was looking to join a tasting
group, the San Francisco Chronicle published
an article claiming that the city's once-great
sommelier culture was dying, with cities like
Los Angeles and New York taking SF's place.
Guillaudeu decided to launch his own group,
with six other sommeliers. Today that group,
which meets twice a week, has grown to
include more than 150 people, at least 44 of
whom have since passed the Court of Master
Sommeliers certified-level exam. Guillaudeu
himself is currently studying for both the Master Sommelier and Master of Wine exams.
His current position also came through a
connection in that tasting group. On a Saturday in 2017, the beverage director at Oakland's
Commis gave his notice; over the weekend,
one of the restaurant's captains, and a tasting group member, submitted Guillaudeu's
resume. By Monday, he was the restaurant's
new beverage director, no staging required.
The 26-seat restaurant had just opened a cocktail lounge next door, allowing Guillaudeu to
double the program to 600 labels on the list.
Since taking over, Guillaudeu has finetuned the list, especially since Commis chef
James Syhabout has continued to incorporate
Laotian flavors and techniques into his dishes.
Gone are the Sancerres and many of the Burgundies the list once held; in their place, he's
added a range of Austrian bottles. "Old grüner
is hauntingly beautiful," says Guillaudeu.
"The wines offer everything I want that sauvignon blanc, Burgundy and riesling offer, all in
one beautiful package."
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