STERLING MINOR'S WINE CONSULTING QUALIFICATIONS

Certified Specialist of Wine (CSW) of Society of Wine Educators

Experience

• The Houston Club (Est. 1894) Wine Committee, for many years
  • Conceived and developed a new event, The Northern Italian Wine Dinner
    • Created food menu and selected seven and eight wines the first two years
    • Created and presented PowerPoint of the foods and wines served
  • Conceived and developed, and presented, twenty "wine tasting" events with food
  • Conceived and developed, and partially presented, a six session Wine Course
  • Requested by other members to select wines from the Club's Cellar for their events
• Consultant to the restaurant for a 2009 Wine Dinner at Arturo's Uptown Italiano in Houston
• Classes given by Bear Dalton and other Spec's (Wine, Spirits and Finer Foods) wine buyers
• Extensive reading on wine for years
• Visited vineyards of: Burgundy, Alsace, Veneto, Friuli, Trentino, Andalusia, La Mancha, Slovenia
• Selected and purchased over 300 different wines May, 2007-May, 2008, for a new cellar
• My own wine cellar right now has over 400 different wines
• Have been engaged by someone before you to do each of the services I offer

In his principal occupation Sterling Minor an "AV" rated business attorney, dealing in purchases and sales of businesses and of real estate, advising entrepreneurs in setting up business structures, advising attorneys and clients in the law of business entities, and representing debtors and creditors in bankruptcy proceedings. See his law practice Web site: www.minorbairlaw.com 

Available Tools

Sterling maintains paid subscriptions to the main reviewers' publications, which he reads upon release and which he thereafter checks specifically for each wine under consideration for you, his client.

Wine Advocate, the publication of Robert Parker at eRobertParker.com

Wine Spectator, the publication of Marvin Shanken at WineSpectator.com

International Wine Cellar, the publication of Stephen Tanzer at wineaccess.com/expert/tanzer

Burghound, the publication of Allen Meadows at burghound.com

Purple Pages, the publication of Jancis Robinson at JancisRobinson.com

Wine Library TV, the reviews of Gary Vaynerchuk at tv.winelibrary.com [This one is Free]

Sterling subscribes to an online wine cellar management program that goes well beyond simply tracking his collection.  CellarTracker! has developed into a 90,000+ worldwide subscriber system that maintains not only professional reviewer's comments, but also subscribers' comments.

Since Texas Residents may not import wine, the following service is for residents of other states that do allow purchasing wine from out of state. Sterling subscribes for a fee to an online site that provides the availability of a particular wine at a specific price, to which hundreds of retailers and wineries provide their respective information.WineSearcherPro, which has an available free service at winesearcher.com He can often locate information on older wines, beyond that available using the above sources, through his knowledge of and access to consigners of personal wine collections and wine auctioneers.