Erik Segelbaum is an Advanced Sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers, a Certified Specialist of Wine (with distinction) with the Society of Wine Educators, and founder of SOMLYAY. In his (nearly) three decades of restaurant industry experience, he has served as the corporate beverage director for Starr Restaurants and was the head sommelier of MV The World—an ultra-luxury private residential community based on the largest private yacht on the planet. Segelbaum is an active wine educator with ongoing sessions at Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., as well as at private and corporate events.
