About Us
The Second Glass is your unpretentious, badass source for baller wine information.
The Second Glass drops knowledge through weekly e-mails and events throughout Boston encouraging everyone to learn about and drink more wine. We empower our readers by enriching their knowledge of different regions, styles and techniques. Our goal is not to critique wine but explain the world of wine in a down-to-earth and humorous tone. It is our firm belief that good wine is not just for the elite. Good wine, like good food is available to everyone.
Want to read about all the interns that helped us get here? Check out the Intern Wall of Fame
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Tyler BallietPresident, Editor Twitter: @tylerb |
| Tyler was born and raised in Madison, WI then attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. After graduating in 2003 he traveled the United States and Europe, living for close to a year in a tiny town in rural France. It was here he decided, inexpensive but totally awesome wine was a good idea. In May of 2005 Tyler moved to Boston and got a job in a wine store. In the store he learned about non-French wine what not paying full retail value was all about. In August of 2006, while flipping through the latest copy of Wine Spectator on a particularly slow evening in the store, the idea for an unpretentious wine magazine hit him. After a three months, a few Craig’s List ads, a couple dozen meetings and hundreds of phone calls later, The Second Glass was born. | |
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Morgan FirstCo-founder, Marketing and Community Director Twitter: @morgan1st |
| Morgan was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA and headed to Boston for college to earn a degree from Emerson College in Marketing and Entrepreneurship. After graduating she started Motion Affair Planner (MAP) BOSTON a combination local city guide and planner that she printed for 3 years before switching her full-time focus to all things wine and social media. At Second Glass Morgan is the instigator and organizer of events as well as the press liaison. You can find Morgan back and forth between Boston and LA as Second Glass expands its empire. When not jetting back and forth between coats, you can find Morgan wandering the aisles of flea markets, most likely with her little dog Josie in tow.
The Wine that got me into wine: 2002 Salentein Malbec |
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Avery AndersonWeb Operations Director Twitter: @a_anderson |
| Avery was raised in the Willamette Valley of Oregon before making the 3000-mile trek to New England to earn her degree. She attended Olin College, a revolutionary new engineering school in Needham, graduating with a mechanical engineering degree that emphasized user-centered design. Even though she grew up on Oregon microbrew, Avery found a soft spot for wine during a semester abroad in Aix-en-Provence. She started attending Second Glass crash courses at Downtown Wine and Spirits, and loved them so much that she now applies her acute engineering mind and overindulgent love of wine as the Second Glass’s Web Operations Director. If you don’t want to stay up until the early hours, we wouldn’t recommend bringing any of these up in front of Avery: folding bicycles, Oregon, and the library. *Especially* the library.
The Wine that Got Me Into Wine: Table Wines of Aix-en-Provence |
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Holly GordonDesigner Twitter: @MissHGordon Website: missgordon.com |
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When Holly was still in school at The New England Institute of Art and looking for internships, fate (Craigslist) brought her to the Second Glass office as the first and only design intern. With luck on her side and lots of hard work, she found her true love – digital illustration. After many glasses of wine and a more than a few projects under her belt, Holly is now freelancing full time. When she’s not designing, she can be found playing classical piano, organizing her bookshelf by color or cooking something vegetarian.
The Wine that got me into wine: The first time I went “holy shit” to a wine, it was a carmenere, but I don’t remember which one!
Drunk Munchies: Homemade Popcorn
If I only had to drink one wine for the rest of my life: Zinfandel Port
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Liz DemakosMarketing and Events Assistant |
| Liz, aka “Coach” is a recent graduate of Wesleyan University with a BA in Spanish and Iberian studies. A native of Buffalo NY, she boasts outstanding driving capabilities in adverse weather conditions and a weakness for competitive sports. She LOVES wine, dreams of living and working on a vineyard in Latin America, and has just recently embarked on a saucy love affair with port. When not off on outdoor adventures or beach-bound with a stocked travel cooler, you can find Liz peer-pressuring the Second Glass crew into shotgunning beers.
The Wine that got me into wine: Personal bottles of Cava in Madrid, Spain
Drunk Munchies: Pizza Bites
If I only had to drink one wine for the rest of my life: Hess Cabernet Sauvignon
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Sarah McCulleyAdministrative Assistant |
| Sarah came to intern at The Second Glass when she found herself in between the end of college and the beginning of “real life”. She received a degree in Film from Emerson College in December, which, among other things, allows her to be extremely pretentious in movie theatres (“oh, excuse me, do YOU have a degree in film?”). Sarah really became interested in wine after a visit to Litoměřice, where she managed to smuggle a bottle of Rulandské bílé into the States to be enjoyed upon moving into her new apartment. Her interest in wine really began to take shape when she began bartending in downtown Boston. When Sarah isn’t cooking or seriously getting her money’s worth out of her Netflix account, she enjoys getting lost in foreign countries, spending too much money on clothes and attempting to learn new languages. Some day, she hopes to replace that hack Samantha Brown on the Travel Channel (but she isn’t bitter or anything). The Wine that got me into wine: Litoměřice Rulandské bílé Drunk Munchies: Any glorious combination of carbs and cheese If I only had to drink one wine for the rest of my life: The local wine made wherever it is I’m spending the rest of my life…never underestimate the power or terroir. |
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