Director of Helsinqi, a creative marketing firm -- one specialty being wine marketing. Artist-designer-entrepreneur, WSET wine certification graduate, founding member of Barnyard Action tasting group, wine steward for secret salon events. As a kid I grew up in the vineyards outside Lausanne. I didn't learn much about wine, but the vinehands did teach me how to swear in Italian.
I always go for the unusual and unexpected over the familiar. Love nuanced, challenging, less forward wines. Give me petroly Rieslings, leathery Riojas, barny Cahors, rubbery Pinotages, enigmatic Assyrtiko, strange herbaceousness, idiosyncratic botrytis...