My Favorite Wine?

During & after my many years in the wine industry, the question I'm most often asked by consumers has been:

       “What’s your favorite wine?”

If I’ve never told you – I really dislike this question. There is no good or definitive answer. My tongue-in-cheek answer has always been “The bottle that’s open.” At least that gets people to chuckle.

Now for a bit of education. Your palate changes constantly. What you pr...

Having spent most of my career promoting wines for distributors and importing companies, I am now happy to be a "free agent." I have no ties, no obligations to anyone in the industry.

My focus now is primarily to taste, evaluate, and promote the wines of the USA, primarily those of my home in Oregon, as well as California and Washington State. This is a marked departure from most of my career, where my focus was on European (mostly Fre...

Tomorrow? I'm still working on today. I'll deal with tomorrow when it arrives.

While I am mostly retired now, I still do a little consulting and other work with my company "Wine-is-Art," and remain interested in fine food & wine from around the world. I not only attend as many tastings as possible, but organize tastings at my home in Southern Oregon.

I have spent more than 40 years in the wine industry, primarily based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, but traveling much of the world in my studies of fine wine. ...