Ok, so you may be wondering my background in wine to have a blog on it, so, here goes -
Italian grandparents (on my Father's side), wine was a part of growing up. After the college thing (music), and some teaching, ended up landing a job as a wine and liquor guy with a large West Coast chain drugstore. This lead me back to some college (UC Davis) in wine (really, viticulture and enology), and finally into working for wineries - production, vineyard, tasting room, you name it. This also lead to me being a wine writer (such magazines as D'Vine Magazine, and others), as well as wine judging (San Joaquin Fair, California State Fair Home Winemakers, Amador County Fair, Mother Lode Fair, Sonoma County Harvest Fair), as well as work at American Winesecrets, where we specialize in help wineries fine tune their wines through various technologies. There's a whole lot more, but that gives you the overview.....
More tomorrow, and until then, enjoy a glass of your favorite tonight with dinner!