“I was born and raised in Harvard,
Illinois, a land of Manhattans,
Pabst beer and Friday-night fish fries — wine was unknown. However, during a
college semester spent studying in Europe I
discovered wine and fine food, and there was no going back. After graduating
from Illinois State University, I worked as a photojournalist and food and wine
writer for four years before my passion for food and wine overwhelmed my sense
of reality and I entered the wine business In 1980, I joined Sam Leavitt as a
partner in Direct Import Wine Company which grew to be recognized as offering
the most elite portfolio of estate wines in the Chicago market. In the early
80’s we began importing the Italian selection of Neil and Maria Empson and the
French wines of Rebecca Wasserman and Christopher Cannan. These people
influenced me deeply and the many, many hours I spent with them in the
vineyards shaped and developed my palate. I will be ever grateful to them for
this extraordinary education. In 1996 our company was devoured by Paterno
Imports (who later fed it to Southern Wine and Spirits), but I remained at
Direct as president until 1999.
In a fit of sanity, prompted by an outburst of ethics, I
left the corporate world of the Terlato Wine Group to return to the area of the
wine industry that fueled my passion for wines to begin with: small estates
making distinctive wines with a personality reflecting the vision of the people
that created them. Following a brief crash-and-burn as an importer, I spent
several wonderful years in Italy,
writing and doing a total immersion experience in Italian winemaking. This led
to my creating VinoCibo.com to share these experiences and engage in an
exchange of ideas with other like-minded “terroirists”. Now that I am back in
the USA that project has
been replaced by The Wine Camp Blog as I wanted my focus to go beyond the wines
of Italy.
During those years I was also a site manager and host of the Italian and Wine
Forums on eGullet.org. After three years working with Oregon pinot noir and
guiding the former Chateau Benoit into its new incarnation as Anne Amie
Vineyards I have moved south and taken up residence in the heart of the
American wine industry, the Napa Valley. Today I am general manager of
Cornerstone Cellars where I have the privilege of working with some of America’s most
dynamic winemakers: our winemaker Jeff Keene and our consulting enologist Peter
Fanus. So my winemaking odyssey continues starting with nebbiolo, then pinot
noir and now cabernet sauvignon. As always I do not comment on the wines of the
region that I am working in so you’ll not find any commentary on Napa Valley
wines here during my time in Napa,
but that’s no problem as there is no shortage of wonderful wines to write about
these days. Thanks for visiting The Wine Camp Blog.”
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