Dear GuildSomm readers, It’s good to be back. I have many fond memories of writing for this site and am thrilled to return here to promote my newest creation, Wine Confident. I wrote this book not so much for the budding professional but for the burgeoning consumer—whom, I hope we can all agree, we need more than ever. In writing this book, I mined the depths of my over 20 years in the wine industry to answer some of our beloved field’s most vexing questions. But I didn’t just seek to inform.