Six years ago, I became a quadriplegic.

Here are 6 essential things I’ve learned since then. 1️⃣ People with spinal cord injuries have 20x higher unemployment than non-disabled people.

Limited mobility makes many professions impossible.

I’d personally love to be the next Jeremy Lin, but it’s not happening.

1/ France has long had a stranglehold on the fine wine world.

That grip was broken in a single day.

Here’s story of the most important afternoon in wine history.

👇 👇 👇 2/ Burgundy. Bordeaux. Rhône. Champagne.

These wine regions are titans of the industry.

They’re also all French.

That’s because of a combination of location, history, and prestige.

1/ Chances are you’re drinking your wine wrong.

That’s because there’s a lot of misinformation out there.

It's time to set the record straight.

👇🏼 👇🏼 👇🏼 2/ Myth 1: Different wines need different glasses ⚠️

Stop putting your wines in different glasses.

The right glass works for everything from sherry to shiraz.

1/ How many career changes does it take to find the right job?

For one Napa Valley producer, no answer is too high.

👇🏼 👇🏼 👇🏼 2/ Meet Andy Erickson.

He and his wife Annie are the minds behind Favia Wine.

I’ll circle back to Favia in a moment.

Here’s how he got there.

Put down the corkscrew. You won’t want to drink another wine until you read this.

👇🏻 👇🏻 👇🏻 You can tell a lot about a wine from its label.

-The country and region
-The grape varieties
-The classification
-The producer
-The ABV
-The vintage

However, what the label says or doesn’t say can make a massive difference.

Poker players succeed by taking calculated risks.

In 1979, a poker player purchased 40 acres in Napa.

That land has produced the most awarded American wines in the last 30 years.

Here’s a story of skill, timing, and a little bit of luck.

👇🏻 👇🏻 👇🏻 2/ Bill Harlan is a Renaissance man.

As a young man, he spent 3 years playing professional poker.

He was good enough that he earned a suite at a Lake Tahoe casino.

Today I’ll be sharing the story of a hyper-exclusive winery.

Limited edition bottling every year.

A decade-long wait list.

Some call it the Supreme of the wine world. 🚨

Guess the location: 2/ The correct answer?

Ventura, California.

this winery makes some of the best Rhône-style wine in the world.

When legendary wine critic Robert Parker visited, he called it “A scene from a Mad Max movie set.”

If there’s a chance to make money, people will cut corners to get it.

Even if that means lying, cheating, or stealing.

Welcome to the ruthless world of counterfeit wine.

👇👇👇 /2 Sassicaia is one of the most prestigious wines.

It’s the seminal “Super Tuscan”, a favorite of celebrities like Mark Wahlberg and Jimmy Butler

The 2016 vintage was named Wine Spectator’s #1 wine of the year and received 💯point ratings from multiple critics

Passing the Master Sommelier exam is hard.

Currently only 274 have passed and only 9 passed on their first try.

That makes it more exclusive than the:

NFL Hall of Fame
Nobel Prize
Wu-Tang Clan

What makes it one of the most difficult tests in the world?

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🍷🍷🍷 1/ The Court of Master Sommeliers (@CMS_americas) is the leading educational organization for wine.

It has four levels:

Introductory Sommelier
Certified Sommelier
Advanced Sommelier
Master Sommelier

1/ It’s Sunday storytime.

This week marks 15 years since one of the most outrageous and terrifying events in the world of fine wine happened.

This is a tale of extreme greed, obsession, and arson.

👇👇👇 2/ It’s October 12, 2005, and Mark Anderson is up to no good.

The 300-pound man is walking toward a 240,000 square-foot former Navy bunker with gasoline-soaked rags.

In moments, he’ll destroy a over a quarter billion dollars’ worth of fine wine.

1/ It’s January 2010.

Aubert de Villaine is the famed proprietor of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.

One day he receives an anonymous note threatening to destroy his priceless vines.

The ransom?

€1 million 2/ If you’re unfamiliar with Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.

Their wines are rare and fiercely sought-after.

Its wine retails for more than $20,000 per bottle, and prices quickly skyrocket on the secondary market. In Oct 2018 two bottles of the 1945 vintage sold for $558,000

All right everybody, it’s wine trivia time!

Do you know what a Super Tuscan is? 🍇 2/ Have you ever said: “F this. I can do things better myself.”

That attitude got us Impressionist painters in the 19th century

And Tesla in the 21st century.

It’s also how we got one of the world’s most famous wine categories.

Buckle up for storytime.

1/ A bottle of 1787 Château Lafite Rothschild

Supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson

Was at the heart of an international scandal.

Buckle up for part mystery, part wine history,

And one big juicy story.

👇 👇 👇 2/ Thomas Jefferson was America’s first famous wine buff.

He traveled to French wine regions and studied viticulture.

He even had 20,000 bottles of wine at the White House.

LeBron @KingJames is playing his 10th #NBAFinals

Regardless of outcome, he has cemented his legacy as one of the greatest athletes of his generation.

But there is another legacy that many aren't aware of: bringing fine wine into the mainstream.

Thread time 🍷🍷🍷 1/ It may seem contrarian for a superstar NBA athlete to be obsessed with drinking wine.

It feels counterintuitive to performance.

However, his stats, like wine, have only improved with age.

Can anybody guess the price of the most expensive American wine ever sold?

Story below 🍷 1/ Answer: $500,000 for a bottle of Screaming Eagle 🦅

Made by a female winemaker (extremely rare in this industry).

The story of how this wine went from $100 a bottle to $500,000 is incredible.

Everyone dreams of having Warren Buffett’s portfolio, but few do.

Why?

Patience.

Here’s what Buffett’s patience can teach us about investing
👇 👇 👇 1/ This is young Warren Buffett.

When he was 11, he bought three shares of Cities Service Preferred.

The stock fluctuated, and he eventually sold them for $5.

If he had waited a little while longer, he would have earned $500.