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Tyler Snelson is a Court of Master Sommeliers Certified Sommelier and holds a Wine and Spirit Education Trust Level 3 Award in Wines.

I was 18 years old when I had my first glass of wine. With all of their children having graduated from high school, my parents decided to take us, for the first time, on a family vacation outside the United States, and they chose Italy (as many Americans do) for their first taste of Europe.

I'm sure that first glass was somewhere in Rome at dinnertime, but to be honest I don't remember it, and to be even more honest, my 18-year-old-self was, for some inexplicable reason, really interested in drinking Baileys....

but I do remember the second glass.

It was lunch. We were on the island of Murano off Venice, at a spot on the Rio dei Vetrai. We were dining outside along the water, having frutti di mare, and an Italian gentleman who was with us order a bottle of white wine. And for the first time—but something which has occurred innumerable times since—that glass of wine left an imprint on my mind. To this day, over two decades later, when I think about that glass of wine, I'm transported back to that sidewalk, that table, that moment: the sunshine, the water, the food, and the company, the excitement of exploring a new culture and the wonder of trying something new.

I am amazed at wine's ability to do that.

I've been told that of all the senses, the olfactory is the one toward which our memory is most inclined, and perhaps that is why wine can act as such a powerful timestamp.

Each glass is unique—with its own perceptible aroma—and our brains utilize that distinction to do what it does best: make order and sense of life's moments.

But wine's ability to enshrine a particular moment extends beyond just our own personal memories; wine also can be a snapshot in time of plot of soil, a farmer and his family, a region—even an entire culture or way of life that is different from our own.

At the risk of sounding overly-grandiose, wine is the distillation and synergy of human experience.

It's geography.

It's history.

It's chemistry, physics, biology, politics, and anthropology...

All in a glass we can enjoy, contemplate, revisit and discover.

I'm not here to tell you what to like or not to like.

You know yourself better than I ever could, and each person is more than allowed to enjoy the thing they enjoy without having "an expert" tell them they are foolish or ignorant. And the truth is that in the past, wine culture (at least fine wine culture) has not done the best job at welcoming everyone into the fold.

But together, maybe we can change that—at least for you, me, and our little corner of the world.

I'd love to help you discover the best wine or wines for you.

Wines that seemingly are tailor-made for you.

Wines which represent a people and place and can transport you to them.

Wines which can be a part of the moments in your life, both big and small, and bring you back to them again and again.

Cheers.