WHO ARE YOUR MODERATORS

[Wallace]

Wallace's Bio

My background includes many years working in the vineyards and cellars of Sonoma County wineries which grew into more than 20 years of Wine Sales/Marketing management experiences with wineries and wholesale distributors. For the past five years I have been engaged in managing a winestore on the Internet (www.awinestore.com). In my spare time I am attempting to plant pinot noir on 80 acres in northern Arizona. Ho-boy

I was also a significant part of the Sonoma Harvest Fair wine competition during its first 11 years as Rich Thomas' assistant, and the Dallas Morning News National Wine Competition during its first five years as a co-founder, and man behind the scenes, along with Becky Murphy. I helped found the Alameda County Fair Wine competition and I currently consult to The Mendocino County Fair Wine Competition. As the Curmudgeon mentions above I am chief wine steward for the New World International Wine Competition. Ironically I was hosting the first nationwide wine bulletin board system that prompted Craig Goldwyn to ask if I would care to present it to AOL in their early years. Additionally, I co-sponsored, along with Craig Goldwyn, the very first wine competition which brought wines from outside California to compete with California wines: The West Coast Wine Competition.

Chuck Chapman and I developed and were the first instructors of the Wine Marketing course offered by Santa Rosa Community College. I have moderated panels on wine sales and marketing at Hastings School of Law, San Francisco State, Palm Springs City College, the American Wine Expo in Dallas, the Wineries Unlimited Seminar and Trade Show in New York, The Society of Wine Educators at U.C. Davis and numerous civic organizations.

But mostly I lurk.

[This message has been edited by Wallace (edited 01-11-99).]

[This message has been edited by Wallace (edited 01-11-99).]