David E Rounds, CSW

  Education/Certifications/Memberships:

• I have worked in the wine industry for over 30 years, in addition to teaching wine appreciation for 10 years, and I am a Certified Specialist of Wine with the Society of Wine Educators.

• As of August 2012, I am the one of very few certified appraisers with a specialty in wine for Oregon.  I am USPAP compliant through Dec 2025.

• Certified Personal Property Appraiser, Specialty in Wine – Certified Appraisers Guild of America (as of 2012)

• Appraising Fine and Rare Wines Course, New York University SCPS

• Member, Association of Online Appraisers

• Petitioning to become member of the Appraisers Association of America

• Certified Specialist of Wine – Society of Wine Educators (Certification in 2012)

• B.S. Environmental Biology, University of Michigan

   Notables:

• Recognized in Wine Enthusiast magazine’s “Top 100 Wine Restaurants in the U.S.” – Beast Restaurant, 2011 and 2012, as architect of Beast's award-wining Wine Program

• Expert witness in wine for winning court cases – Portland, OR...2007, 2014, 2015

• Wine educator for over 8 years for Wine & Spirit Archive Passport Series, Wine for Everyone, Mindglo Education, and Indulge Wine School

• Architect for the weekly prix fixe 6 course tasting menu wine pairings at BEAST, renowned James Beard Awarded destination restaurant, for 8 years where I paired more than 4000 individual dishes to specific wines covering a wide variety of nationalities and styles from sparkling to fortified to digestives

• Managed a $1.35 million a year beverage department for a national chain

• Managed beverage program for gastro-bistro as sommelier, front of the house manager, and beverage director.

• Wine Buying Trips:: I’ve been fortunate to have been able to visit some of the most famous wine growing regions in Europe, including most of France, N and S. Italy, Sicily, Germany, Austria and Spain, and meet and taste with renowned producers including Jobard, Mascarello, Radikon, Vieux-Telegraphe, Tempier, Dageuneau, Schaefer, Donnhoff, Alzinger and Knoll, just to name a few.

  Wine Representation:

• As a 27 year veteran wine consultant for distributors and importers in the Pacific NW, I’ve represented some incredible wineries and importers:

• Northwest producers such as Cayuse, Woodward Canyon, Abeja, L'Ecole 41, Reynvaan, Betz, Stoller, Chehalem, Ponzi, Syncline, Owen Roe, Patricia Green, Sineann, K Vintners, Antiqua Terra, Walter Scott, Evesham Wood, Bergstrom.

• California producers such as Kosta Brown, Jordan, Patz and Hall, Copain, Radio-Coteau, Littori, Harlan, Bond Estate, Diamond Creek, Ramey, Shafer, Pride, and Seghesio, just to name some of the amazing producers I represented.

• Great importers of the wine world, including Kermit Lynch Imports, Eric Solomon Imports, Becky Wasserman Selections, De Maison, Jorge Ordonez, Vias, Michael Skurnik/Terry Thiese,  Marco de Grazia, Louis Dressner, Vin Divino, Kysela, Weygandt/Metzler, Neil Rosenthal, Summa Vitis, and Champagne et Villages, and more.

   Contact me to discuss your particular wine-related interests.