Jerry Mead

[Innkeeper]

There is a tread on this Board called "Jerry's Kids", and it does not get much play and will never go away. Jerry Mead edited and produced a magazine called Wine Trader. It was the best wine magazine ever published. Some of the contributors are still on this Board, including a guy known as Bucko. Jerry also established this Board. Both the magazine and website exemplified his desire to stay in touch with everyone who drinks, produce, or sells wine. He wanted both to be a sounding board for one and all.

More than anything else he wanted justice in the world of wine. He wanted small producers to survive, and helped many to do so. He wanted all of us to be able to buy whatever wine we wanted from anywhere. He wanted retailers to be truly independent, and able to serve their customers.

He shot from the hip, and sometimes he hit his friends. But then, quietly, he would let them know that all was cool.

He was one of a kind.