✨Wine Reunion Trip to Barcelona 🥂🍷

Dear wine lovers,

it’s been over one year in the coming, our first reunion since we finished our block seminars. We have been contributing a monthly installment towards a wine fund which will now be able to buy some crazy bottles.

Besides hopefully having a great time with lot’s of stories to tell, we will be visiting the Priorat, Penedes and the Costa Brava, the latter I know the least about. So stay tuned for some great wine stories.

In the meantime I started my next challenge. I began my WSET Level 4 Diploma studies at the Austrian Wine Academy. Besides learning a lot I met a bunch of great people from all over, which most of them are from a different generation 😀. So besides studying we have a lot of fun enjoying wines and times together.

Yeah, there has been a lot of “wine time“ over the last months, attending block seminars in Italy & Austria and several exams with the necessary study time before. I am trying to take it a bit easier over the summer before focussing again in the fall. Check out my wine stories with great trips to various Italian wine regions and unforgettable moments with my fellow students here.

Meanwhile keeping staying curious and looking for new and great tastes — plus drop me a comment if you like.

Lots of 🍷🍾, Albert

Hi, I'm Albert

Global citizen🇨🇭, sportive, passionate 📷 & licensed drone pilot, UN 191/193 traveler, houseman, father of two adult sons, entrepreneur.

I love food & wine, currently WSET Diploma student at the Austrian Wine Academy.

As a seasoned professional with extensive international experience, I have personally been in over 200 countries and territories (UN 191 of 193) while conducted business in dozens of them.

While✨treasuring the good sides of life, I enjoy life as it is. Are you curious about my next adventure?

WSET Level 4 Diploma Studies

Driving Tuscany’s country roads in Montalcino close by the famous Castello Banfi estate 🇮🇹

«What would life be without wine, hard to imagine. Sharing a good bottle of wine with loved ones and friends just can’t be underestimated. Every single bottle of wine has its own story to tell. Let’s discover them all!»

Wine has been with me for over 40 years. It started on Sundays when at age 10 my father let me have ONE! glass for lunch.

Not a lot changed for the first ten years but I continued to like to drink it with food at my parents house since I could not afford it myself. This all changed when I started my first real job after university and “invested” part of my first bonus into a case of Bordeaux in 1990.

From then on my interest and passion grew and by the early 1990ies my friends made me take them in a small bus to Burgundy with me in the front on the microphone!

I started to build a decent wine cellar with over 5000 bottles at peak in the mid 2000s. Even though I have moved to a much bigger wine cellar in the mean time, overall stock has come down in order to avoid “dead bottles” and besides the real collectibles, have stock churning at a healthy rate.

To this day I have not been involved in the business of wine in any capacity even though many people continue to ask why not. However I have been studying wine at WSET passing Level 3 in 2013 and are now a Diploma student. Wish me luck and “join” me on the way there.