Married and enjoying life on the Oregon coast. I currently co-own and manage a wine bar and retail shop, am also the sommelier for the adjoining Italian restaurant.
It was through my love of cooking that I discovered wine. I began choosing wines to enhance the food, but I soon found so many delicious wines that I was creating menus around the wine instead of vice versa.

Anything from Shafer, Elyse, Hundred Acre, Ken Wright Cellars, Bergstrom, Pepper Bridge, Duckhorn, Joseph Phelps. A recent beauty was a 1989 Spottswoode Cab--much much better than anyone expected, and I just LOVE when that happens. Léoville Las Cases is another one I must mention, as I've never had one that was less than outstanding.