After winning Boston Magazine’s “Best Sommelier” Award in 2003, and after four years with The Federalist on Beacon Hill, AND after four years with Smith & Wollensky, Boston (as Beverage Manager) I am finally sitting down long enough to type and share some thoughts on wine, the wine trade, hospitality industry.
Personally, this is what I believe about wine:
This is the best time ever to be a wine consumer, for a number of reasons. There is better access to information on line, a growing number of great wineries making fantastic products year after year, and the improving technology and research to ensure you get a sound bottle. It is meant to be fun. It is meant to be shared. It is endless, so don’t worry that you don’t know it all. No one does. And for the record, this is not set in stone. Wine, like our tastes, our loves, our appearance and our disposition … is fluid. I believe wine should be fun, explored and examined and enjoyed with friends.
I hope you enjoy this blog.
My aim is to update it every Sunday, so stay tuned.
James Flynn
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July 9, 2009 at 2:44 pm
kathryn
Very cool James!!! Congratulations on all the well deserved accolades. I didn’t realize you were in Boston. Let me know where you are if you are still working here and we will come out!
July 31, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Kyle
Hey James, long time, no talk. I hope all is well in Beantown. Im still in St. Louis, selling wine. Drop me an email sometime.
Kyle Harsha
September 11, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Peter Foss
Hi James,
I have been wondering were your name might pop up……and I think that I have found you. I hope all is well. I would love to catch up or, if you are working in the area and in the business, I would stop by.
Feel free to drop me an emissive at some point.
Peter
June 17, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Tim Kinstler
“It(wine) is meant to be fun. It is meant to be shared.”
“(oh yeah, wine REALLY should be fun, and enjoyed with friends.)”
Is this set stone? No room for disagreement?
Personally I find wine to be a personal and mystical experience. One where I connect with the earth and what it has to say to me. Sure wine can be fun but that is not all it can be.