Sam Mushman

No drink is more essential to the holiday season than wine. With stay-at-home orders potentially on the horizon, there’s no better time to explore the world of wine through the eyes of tastemakers who make it exciting.

Inside a Greenwich Village comedy club on a sweaty Wednesday evening in July 2019, Sam Mushman takes the stage. He starts out his seven-minute set talking about one of his obvious physical features: his height. He’s 6-foot-6 and describes to the audience how women he’s dated believe his stature makes him a good fighter. He disagrees.

When sommelier Sam Mushman started curating his wine program at Arthouse Hotel in NYC, he aimed to assemble a generous half-bottle selection. Mushman favors the smaller serving vessel because he believes it gives consumers the chance to sample some of the world’s finest wines at (relatively) affordable prices.