When I moved to San Fran­cisco in 2006, I knew noth­ing about wine or the won­der­ful wine regions nearby.

When a friend of mine first sug­gested “wine tast­ing,” I imme­di­ately pic­tured a bunch of stiffs with noses and pinky fin­gers raised, mak­ing up things they tasted in the wine.  I thought to myself, “It’s just fer­mented grape juice, people!”

Nev­er­the­less, we gave it a try and spent a Sat­ur­day after­noon in Russ­ian River Val­ley.  The wind­ing, tree-lined roads and rolling vine­yards blew me away.  The peo­ple work­ing the win­ery tast­ing rooms were unpre­ten­tious, nor­mal folks.  And then the wine.  “I didn’t know wine could taste this way!” I thought.  I couldn’t describe a sin­gle thing about it, but it was unlike any wine I tasted before.  I was hooked.  Seduced.

Since then I’ve spent a sig­nif­i­cant amount of time learn­ing, tast­ing, vis­it­ing dif­fer­ent wine regions, and mak­ing my own wine.  The pur­pose of my site is to share my thoughts and expe­ri­ences with you.

Finally, I am cer­tainly no wine “expert.”  I am a nor­mal guy who really enjoys wine.  Like any­one else, I’m learn­ing as I go.

Cheers,
Tom