I started in the wine business around 1971. Then in 1974, I joined IBM where I worked for 35 years. During that time, I still stay closed to wine. I continued to read all about wines and taste wines from different countries.
In 1996, I started working at a local wine shop as their person to help customers taste wines. I did that for 5 years and was able to increase my working knowledge of many domestic wines.
In 2009, I retired from IBM and started working at a local wine shop. I took over as their wine manager. I expanded my wine workings into almost every continent and type of wine. I ran daily wine tastings, plus I conducted monthly educational seminars on wine.
During this time, I also ran Wine Dinners for about a 100 people. I would select the wine theme and then work closely with the caterer in coming up with the perfect pairing of wine and food. Some of the themes, I had were
Champagne Night
Around the World in 80 Wines
CT and NY Wines
Dont Wine for me Argentina
I still spend a lot of time reading, researching and tasting various wines. One of my hobbies is to visit different wine shops. I like to see their inventory, I want to see how they display their wines and also how the staff at the store can help with wines.