This year he is hard at work on an in-depth book devoted to the wines of Italy. He is a past winner of the Geja's Wine Tasting Cup in the professional division and was a year 2000 nominee for excellence in wine journalism in Italy's prestigious Casato Prime Donne Internazionale awards. Finally, in his spare time he is an advanced candidate in the Master of Wine program, having already successfully completed his dissertation and achieved first-year perfect marks in both wine tasting and theory. Educated at the United States Military Academy at West Point and Northwestern University, he is a resident of Chicago, though he holds both British and U.S. citizenship. He is an intrepid traveler and has thus far traveled to six of the seven continents and 49 of 50 U.S. states.
Idle hands make the devil's work.
Frequent travel to the wine regions of Europe and North America keep him travelling for three months out of the year. Marc received his grounding in vinous matters through working in the wine trade in England for a number wine merchants, notably Oddbins and Bottoms Up. A spell on the Continent culminated in France with an English wine merchant. Education took the form of a degree in Computer Science at the University of Exeter after deciding that Electronic Engineering was not his cup of tea. This former is at last proving useful with the burgeoning Internet and computer-related activity at Tastings .