Hi, my name is Elizabeth and I’m a sommelier, journalist, and storyteller. Oh yes, I’m also a winemaker with an MBA. Honest, this will all actually make sense once we enjoy a story and a glass of wine together. How can I help you today?
Howdy and thanks for stopping by! For more than 20 years I’ve been a voyeur in many different walks of life where I’ve experienced firsthand the positive impact of storytelling. As a certified sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers, I’ve learned wine is the storytelling thread that weaves life experiences into a cohesive whole.
Visit my blog and tell me your thoughts about both old and new ideas that are influencing wine enjoyment and storytelling today. View my portfolio to explore my diverse range of communications written and designed for newspapers, magazines, businesses, and non-profits throughout the U.S.
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America’s Generations: A Cultural Summary
June 8, 2022
Back in the mid 1800s, Europeans came up with the idea that we each share something important with people born around the same time as we were and began the process of defining each generation. Today, we often hear and read about Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials and Gen Zers. But how do we define the generations of our grandparents? Great-grandparents? And what micro-generations do we hear about barely often enough to know their names, like Generation Jones and Xennials?
Selling Wine in the Era of Coronavirus
March 16, 2020
Wine and coronavirus: Two unlikely words to place in the same headline. Nonetheless, after it first bubbled quietly in Wuhan, China in December 2019, coronavirus catapulted around the world. Just three months later, elementary schools, major businesses, tasting rooms, and entire nations have shut down.
The Quixotic Quest of Pavle Milic
January 25, 2018
Unlike most people in the hospitality industry, food and wine chose Pavle Milic, not the other way around. But, how did this complicated man with a Slavic name and a Spanish accent end up as co-owner of FnB, a fine food and wine restaurant in Scottsdale and winner of the 2017 James Beard Foundation award for outstanding wine program?
