About Victoria

Victoria is a wine writer, educator, business owner and consultant with over 15 years of experience in the wine industry.

 

In 2018 she founded Mummy Wine Club, an award-winning wine subscription club and wine events company. She has since evolved the business to Victoria Daskal Wine and specialises in presenting wines from all over the world through her curated selections and educational wine events.

 

Born in Moldova, Victoria grew up in Boston, MA and studied Economics and Psychology at McGill University in Montreal.

In 2008 she completed the OIV MSc in International Wine Management– a whirlwind program that took her around 45 wine regions and 23 countries–after which she came to London to work for Jancis Robinson MW.

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She has since worked in sales, events, and marketing while also completing the WSET Diploma with Merit and was most recently the Managing Editor of The World of Fine Wine magazine for six years.

 

She continues to write freelance (Decanter, Club Oenologique, Elite Traveler), judge, and consult. She is also a WSET certified educator and teaches Levels 1, 2, and 3 at the WSET School in London.