After obtaining her BA in English Literature at Warwick University and her MPhil at Cambridge University, Victoria moved to London and started on the Waitrose graduate scheme. While the seeds may have been sown at Friday-night postgraduate dinners, it was later – in 2013 – that she well and truly tumbled down the wine “rabbit hole”. After three years as a horticulture buyer, spending much of her time on the ground, she made the seamless transition into Waitrose’s wine buying team in 2016. She went on to win the Wines from Spain Prize for outstanding results in her WSET Diploma and became a South Africa specialist. Victoria has spent almost all her time immersed in wine since then – tasting, travelling, judging, helping with harvest – with viticulture and soil life emerging as real passions. After Waitrose, she bought for fine wine merchant and trader, Bordeaux Index, before joining The Wine Society’s buying team in May 2024.