After 8 years with a large wine marketing and sales company, working in the Southwest and the Midwest, I decided to leave the corporate world. I moved back to Colorado from Chicago, and began a new chapter in my career as an independent wine "broker/importer", selling wines to distributors in Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.

   I enjoyed doing this for the next 25 years and, during that time, made many rewarding, lasting relationships with great people from the retail and restaurant trade, as well as from wineries and wine marketing companies. Also, during those many years, I came to see that the real heart of the industry was made up of people with a real love of wine (and food along with that) who were endlessly excited, curious, and appreciative about the enjoyment of wine.

   These people are passionate students of wine and realize its value to culture and quality of life, and often have a missionary zeal to pass on their passion and appreciation to others. I can’t understate the pleasure it is for me to be a part of an industry that I love and to know that I am interacting, on a daily basis, with people who feel the same way that I do.