About
Hello, my name is Andre and this blog will focus on my assorted and broad-ranging experiences with wine. Whether it’s a bottle of wine I had at home, a restaurant food and wine experience or my general reflections on the industry, you’ll be sure that what you’ll see in this blog are my honest and unabashed musings.
Blog Mission:
This blog is here to provide recommendations of wine I personally taste as well as provide information on various topics related to wine. It is my hope that through this blog, you will walk away armed with just a little more cool info than you had before your first visit. Before you can show off to your friends though, you have to visit the site regularly.
Wine Credentials:
So what’s my background? I’ve recently acquired my (CSW) Certified Specialist of Wine credential. It’s one of several wine certifications available to the modern day wine professional, so you can rest assured that I know a little something about fermented grape juice.
I also have a genuine obsession with all things wine. That obsession eventually led to my taking the plunge and opening up my very own retail store. So here I am two years later and while the business didn’t exactly pan out, the obsession lives on.
Life After The Retail Store:
This is what this blog is all about. It’s a continuation of the obsession, the dream and the passion, sans the stress and pressure of course, of silly things like bank loans, business debts and 16-hour days. Now I can focus my time on what truly makes this business and industry exciting for me; exploring wine from the many regions, producers and varietals available to us.
One of the components of the mission statement from our store was that we wanted you to: “allow us to do the taste-test drinking, so you wouldn’t have to do the thinking.” With that in mind, let this blog be your guide to the exciting and yes, sometimes-scary world of wine.
Salut!