So a lawyer, a cop, and an elite soldier walk into a bar… Sounds like the intro to a bad joke but it’s actually closer to reality than you think. This entire venture started with an affinity for wine. Tom, Eric, and Leigh all met and formed a friendship around wine, despite the vast differences between their individual walks of life. Eric and Leigh met over ten years ago while they were both serving in Special Operations together. They formed a friendship around pairing obscure meats with boutique wines between training and deployments. This spawned a slight obsession with the wine industry, and the two never let up on their passion cooking good food and pairing great wines. After several years in the Army, Eric got out and tried his hand at selling wine — but after quickly realizing he wasn’t a very good salesman he instead became a police officer. While serving as an officer he challenged himself to take the arduous Certified Specialist of Wine exam and after 2 years of intense study, he passed. He then began teaching wine classes at a local wine shop in Clayton, N.C. where he met Tom.
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