20 questions for Amber Trowbridge

Gates resident enjoys life — and work — near a bottle of wine

Leah Stacy

Special to Metromix
July 1, 2009

20 questions for Amber Trowbridge
(Credit: Katharine Sidelnik)

Age: 27

Occupation:
Corporate events sales manager at Casa Larga Vineyards in Perinton.

Residence:
Gates

1. In 30 words or less, describe what you do all day at work:
Talking to clients about the details and options that Casa Larga offers ... our events team guarantees an exceptional meeting, retirement party, training session, trade shows or wine tasting. Visit other wineries in the Finger Lakes and enjoy a glass of wine.

2. What's your favorite thing to do outside of work?
Visit other wineries in the Finger Lakes and enjoy a glass of wine.

3. Where do you get your coffee? Starbucks.

4. What's your adult beverage of choice?
Casa Larga's Gallery 155 Meritage.

5. What's your favorite bar?
Solera's Wine Bar and Lounge.

6. Describe your personal style:
I'm pretty business casual.

7. What was the last great meal you had?
Tilapia, cooked by my boyfriend at home.

8. What's the next movie you want to see?
The Proposal.

9. What do you DVR?
No, but if I did it would be Grey's Anatomy.

10. What's the last CD you bought or downloaded?
Dave Matthews Band's Big Whiskey & the Groogrux King

11. Have you ever met a celebrity?
I met Bill Murray at Lake Shore Country Club. He was there for a golf tournament and I was bartending, so I served him. We didn't have a conversation, but I remember that he drank Tanqueray and tonic.

12. What's your favorite book?
Any book that has to do with wine and food pairings.

13. What's in your glove compartment?
Car manual, tissues, duo flashlight/seatbelt cutter and a map of the Finger Lake winery trail.

14. When's bedtime?
Between 9:30 and 10 p.m.

15. What do you do for exercise?
Working events and festivals at Casa Larga allows me to get my daily exercise by running up and down the stairs, carrying cases of wine for guests and setting up and tearing down our events.

16. What one thing — not person or pet — would you save in a fire?
Personal photos.

17. What makes you cringe?
Worms, they're gross.

18. If you could have dinner with any historical figure, living or dead, who would it be?
Ronald Regan, because I did a report on him when I was younger and I thought he was interesting. He was also president the year I was born.

19. If you could relive one moment, what would it be?
The birth of my niece.

20. Where do you see yourself five years from now?
Traveling the globe for work and leisure, sampling the wines of the world.

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