I don't think of Calgary, Alberta as the most progressive or open minded place on the planet, and yet arguably the most formative, influential and indefatigable wine professional in the city is a bearded man with tattoos.
The End of the Somnambulist Sommelier:
A challenge, to Calgary’s wine directors, servers, merchants and consumers.
The lunatics have taken over the asylum!!! And not the right lunatics!!! Not the ones who spend the vast majority of their waking hours (forfeiting the vast majority of potential sleeping hours) contemplating the convoluted, multi-faceted and exciting discipline that is wine, but the ones who, knowingly or otherwise, want to reduce wine to just another commercial product – a one-dimensional product that we engage with indifferently in the same way that we might ketchup, lip balm or snow shovels!!! Something needs to be done!!
