Anthony Anselmi, MS is the Director of Wholesale for LOLA Wines, Lumen Wine and Villa Creek Wines.  He has a vast amount of experience in the wine business, spending 5 years working under Bruce Neyers at Kermit Lynch and then 8 years as National Sales Manager for The Rare Wine Company. In 2011 he earned the nearly impossible title of Master Sommelier.

https://www.villacreek.com/

https://www.lumenwines.com/

http://www.lolawines.com/

We Talk About:

His background and how he get into wine

High acidity, alcohol levels, and how to think about body and balance

Working under Bruce Neyers at Kermit Lynch and also working at The Rare Wine Company.

How Anthony earned the nearly impossible title of Master Sommelier

His thoughts on making Chablis or Burgundy in California

The Los Angeles food scene in the late 90s and early 2000s

A special spot on Abbot Kinney, you may never have heard about

The analogy about the band Rush you won't want to miss!

How a Somm thinks about serving the customer

The types of wines he likes and what he's been drinking lately