Underage Worst Than Over Oaked!

Being underage and an oenophile, a lover of wine, is tough work! But I thought, since the main purpose of this blog is to be a start for an official wine blog someday, I would do an introduction to wine and me.

I got into wine when I was in Iraq. All of a sudden, this drink really intrigued me. No, I didn't jump on the Sideways bandwagon, and no, I didn't grow up in the industry. I just got passionate about it. I wanted to learn, to taste, to sniff and to experience wine. After many Google searches on wine, I found a little site called Wine Library TV. With the front man of Gary Vaynerchuk and his video wine blog, I started to learn about wine and get even more enthusiastic about it. Gary quickly became a cult-celebrity, so I shyed away from the videos, but the forum kept me coming back, even to this day.

My birthday is quickly approaching, and with it comes the official beginning of my passionate journey into the world of wine. Oh, how I would LOVE to work in the field someday... Hopefully this summer I can land my job at a little wine store called Finewines.com near my house. That would be a great professional start to my career in the field. It's not too often an outsider gets into "the industry," but I am still determined to try.

With the support of a few friends, my wine knowledge quickly evolved, yet I am still learning, and this is why this blog exist. Let me take you, from the perspective of a young, Thai male not working in the industry, through my passion and love of wine. I've got big plans with collecting, tasting and even making wine.

Please check back often for updates on my progress as I am planning to start an official wine club here at Towson, make wine in my garage this summer with a few friends, and become an all-around, friendly wine guy. Cheers!

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"The Only Thing That is Constant is a Change"

It's been about two years since I've done any blogging of any sort and about a year since I've been back from Iraq, so here's a quick introduction to what happened in the last year in exactly 200 words:

After enlisting in the military, Tatum was sent to Iraq from September 2006- April 2007. While in Iraq he applied and accepted his offer of enrollment to Towson University, where he current attends. Tatum has grown to a new understanding of himself, and after being back is more serious about life than ever. Tatum grew out of his punk/rock clothes and now enjoys more laid-back reggae, jazz over anything, despite still being an avid fan of pop and rock. After adjusting to his new life in college, being the older kid, being in the military, Tatum finished the semester with a 3.8 after changing his major from Theater to Mass Communications and settling on Computer Information Systems with a minor in Public Relations. He is current an avid wine enthusiast, a.k.a. oenophile, hopes to work fulltime at a wine store this summer and plays recreational indoor-soccer team and hopefully roller hockey in the summer. Tatum is currently living on-campus at Towson, attends drill once-a-month and has been dating Jen Long. With the addition of a part-time job and lack of Groove crew, the break dance crew he pulled out from last semester, Tatum’s semester has not been going as well.

So, I guess this will be my new start- let's see what I can drag in! Hope everyone checks back (I know no one will...)

-Tatum

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