It all started with “just drinking wine” with friends, around 2007.
Quickly I questioned myself why a wine, for example, had more acidity or aromas than another.
Reading about wine on the internet and in (professional)magazines followed.
Attending tastings, visiting wine farms. Buying and tasting different wines all the time.
Different country’s, producers, vintages. All passed by, for hobby.

My first official course was the SDEN3. Followed by the vinologenopleiding at the Wijnacademie
and the WSET3 advanced course in English.

The hobby took quite a leap, just like my wine collection.

Workshops and masterclasses I follow up until this day keep me up to date.

In my opinion a wine has to has character.
You need to taste where it comes from. If it was a hot & dry, or cool & wet vintage.
Which grape variety was used, did it age in oak barrels or not?

My heart is in Burgundy, but also in the Mosel. And in Piemonte… and…. and…

Defining and discovering your own taste, while learning about it in a relax way.
That’s the thing I want to pass along by the use of tastings/training/masterclasses

All these things combined conduct to the large and complex library that’s in my head.
Feel free to ask all your wine related questions during a tasting! There should be an answer ready.