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2nd Annual CellarPass Silicon Valley Wine Garden | San Jose | Sept 10-11 | DISCOUNTED TICKETS

The exclusive, spacious and comfortable, Silicon Valley Wine Garden at the South Bay’s Art of Home Show is being sponsored by CellarPass and Imported Wines Direct and hosted by lively TV personality Anthony Gilardi “The Wine Guy”.Wines from over 30 wineries from around the world have been specially-invited to pour their wines at the CellarPass Silicon Valley Wine Garden located right in the middle of one of the largest Home & Garden shows on the West Coast. Visiting Executive Chefs will be…See More
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St. Helena
Country
USA
Wine Affilliation: Consumer or Trade
Trade, Married
About Me:
So how did I get started in all this you may ask? Well it all started when I moved up to St. Helena in 1987 to attend my sophomore year in high school. My parents had split a few years back and my dad ended up living up in the Napa Valley. Sure I had visited a million times and never though I would leave Burlingame to live up in the "country,"

I guess I didn't take it into consideration that I would be surrounded by the next generation of winemakers, vineyard masters, small business owners and the like in a town so small that when you threw a party, more than half your high school class would show up. Those three years were a blast, but I was never interested in doing the "wine' thing. I was determined to be an architect since I was 10.

I got an early start at Cal Poly by taking some architecture courses through a scholarship my junior year summer and then did my senior summer at KSU studying under Mike Lim who puts together an amazing graphic design course in Lawrence, Kansas and that's when the computer bug got a hold of me. I had always had the latest Apple Computer, starting on the IIc, then the IIe and then the Wozniak edition of the Apple IIGS. I had always been emersed into the computer programs we had hacked into growing up with the 5 1/4 disks, then onto the 3.5" disks. Wow, I'm really dating myself now. Anyways, back in college, I had stepped up to the Mac SE (which I still have today) that had an external 50Mb (yes megabyte) hard drive. I never thought I would be able to fill all of that and not long, did I realize that I would have to trade up to a 80Mb drive.

After Poly, I moved back to St. Helena to determined what I was going to do. I knew I was going to have to make a decision; either try the architecture thing or go back to school for "graphic design"- which is what they called it before the term multimedia came around in 1995. I checked out Seattle Art Institute, CCAC and a bunch others and they were all nice schools, but were still too focused on traditional graphic design. What I was looking for was beyond that. So that summer I spent a lot of time playing around with the game that changed it all for me, Myst. This game had a level of graphics that had never stroked the computer monitor before, and the music and sound design was just icing on the cake. This was it, now I knew what I was going to do.

So for about a year a half, I soaked in as much as I could learn from books and just trial by fire with the software itself and whatever projects I could get myself on at Apple, Macromind (before it was Macromedia), Mindscape and some of the first websites in the Napa Valley. I had messed around with PhotoShop v1 and Adobe Premiere v1 in college and found them to be okay, but when v2.5 came out, they were completely different. The tools they then offered were far better. But what changed it all was when I made the leap into computer-based editing. I had worked for Apple while I was in college working on the Alpha Release of QuickTime and thought it was cool, but the size of the video (about a postage stamp) just seemed like it was far from ever going to replace the traditional video editing equipment of the day. I made the crazy decision to purchase an Apple Centris 660AV which could do half-screen video and a Apple 8100/100 that just broke the sound barrier. 100Mhz was night and day from the 33Mhz days. The 8100 allowed me to add the VideoVision nubus card which did 640x480 (almost full screen) and my new career was in place.

Since then, I've started a few companies, here in California, Hawaii and in Japan, helped with some start ups and did some corporate "time" working for some large companies such as Bechtel that took me around the world. As my fascinations with computers continued to evolve, I got more into programming and working with people developing web-based technologies. Today, I'm blessed to work with some talented individuals at Submerce while I still get to dabble in photography and video while wearing my Cephrus hat.
Favorite Wine Website:
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Name your favorite wine or wine type:
Pinot Noir
Most memorable experience around wine?
Drinking lots of it

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2nd Annual CellarPass Silicon Valley Wine Garden | San Jose | Sept 10-11 | DISCOUNTED TICKETS

The exclusive, spacious and comfortable, Silicon Valley Wine Garden at the South Bay’s Art of Home Show is being sponsored by CellarPass and Imported Wines Direct and hosted by lively TV personality Anthony Gilardi “The Wine Guy”.

Wines from over 30 wineries from around the world have been specially-invited to pour their wines at the CellarPass Silicon Valley Wine…

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