Best Sonoma County Restaurant Beverage Program award to the Southside Saloon and Dining Hall in Healdsburg, CA, in 1994 and 1995 form the Sonoma County State Fair;
The Best Sommelier’s I Know by Matt Kramer in Wine Spectator 1997 and 1999;
Top Ten San Francisco Wine Destination Restaurants by Harvey Steiman in Wine Spectator 2003;
Bay Area Top 100 Restaurants-Exceptional Wine Program by Michael Bauer in the San Francisco Chronicle, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003, all for Elisabeth Daniel.
His wine program at Norman’s on Sunset was named Best New Restaurant Wine List 2005 by Food & Wine magazine, July 2005.
He has been titled Best Sommelier in Los Angeles’s by Brad Johnson, Angelino Magazine, December, 2005, and was acclaimed One of the Top Five Sommelier’s in Los Angeles, Editor’s Pick Los Angeles Magazine, 2006.
