A little about me….

I have enjoyed wine for as long as I can remember. While in college in Houston I worked at Morton’s Steakhouse near the Galleria. It was there I began to try “great” wine. I specifically remember an older bottle of Duckhorn Three Palms Merlot got me thinking differently about wine in general. I worked there for years, as a manager and as a wine director, and got to travel a little bit. I also got to start taking some formal trainings (one plus of working for a larger corporation). After a considerable amount of my life spent inside a building with no windows, and wearing a tuxedo every day, I worked for some wine bars around town and did some higher-level consulting. I also started to travel. In 2010 I was hired to run the wine program at Brennan’s of Houston after it had lost everything in a fire/hurricane. This was when I really started to travel the world and see the underbelly of the wine business and truly learn more than just what we had in books at home. I visited South Africa, Australia, Spain,Tasmania, the UK, Austria, and Germany not to mention countless trips to all the major winegrowing regions of France and Italy. I visited Napa and Sonoma at least four times per year. I saw it all. I loved it all. In 2014 I was hired to run the beverage program at Carlton Woods Country Club in The Woodlands, Texas. There was a real effort made to become one of the top 100 clubs in the United States and we got the Platinum Club award about two years later. In 2017 I was hired to run all wine services at Nos Caves Vin, a private wine club with locations in both Rice Village and CityCentre. I met alot of great people and dipped my toes into alot of great wine collections. I will not talk about all the great wine they shared with me. After five years of running two private clubs I decided to run my own, and here I am. It is the year 2023 and the years I spent at Morton’s seem like a lifetime ago. My love for wine and travel and has remained the same (prices have no doubt gone up!). Let me help you love wine just a little more!!