“Way back in the year 2000, my wife Kim and I were living in The Netherlands and during a trip to France – Provence to be exact, the wine bug bit me.
We were enjoying a pizza with niçoise olives on it and the server brought a carafe of rosé. As one those people who says ‘I only drink red’, I thought ‘why not, it’s what everyone around us is drinking’ and voila – I was hooked!
Fast forward ten years and as we were opening Greenville’s first craft beer focused store, I wanted to add wine to the mix, because, well, it’s delicious.
A few years later, as I started going further down the rabbit hole of the wine world, I decided to go for and achieve a Certified Sommelier status with the Court of Master Sommeliers – a rigorous process no doubt.
As I wrote in the notes of a recent Roots wine club collection, to me wine is, in a way, a method of exploration – in each bottle we can visit the vineyards where the grapes are grown and taste the fruits of the labor from the people and the place that made the wine, each one truly a special event.”