About Us
Vino Veritas Consulting is under the direction of Antonio Busalacchi. As a grandson of Sicilian immigrants who made their own wine during the Great Depression, “Tony” comes from a family that has been in the restaurant business for over 65 years. The Busalacchi family has established nearly a dozen restaurants over the years in Milwaukee, Mexico City, and San Diego. Initially, Tony Busalacchi chose a different career path earning B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physics and oceanography at Florida State University. Having worked for years at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and later at the University of Maryland, he found his aspiration coming full circle back to the family business. Presently, he is an Advanced Sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers and sat for his Master’s exams for the first time in 2015. In 2017, he was elected to be a Director of the Guild of Sommeliers Education Foundation (SommFoundation) Board of Directors. Busalacchi is also a Certified Wine Educator, Certified Specialist of Wine, and Certified Specialist of Spirits with the Society of Wine Educators. In 2011, he was chosen as one of 10 Americans invited to the Deutsches Weininstitut Spring Sommelier Class in Germany. Previously, he served as Vice Echanson National with the Chaine des Rotisseurs food and wine organization with responsibility to assist in their wine education and organization of a National Young Sommelier competition. Antonio Busalacchi is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Gastronomic Sciences (Università di Scienze Gastronomiche) in Bra, Italy. He has also served as a judge for the state of Virgina's Governor's Cup wine competition. Operating out of the greater Washington DC area, the French Quarter in New Orleans, and Vail/Longmont Colorado; Vino Veritas provides a broad range of consulting services including wine education, wine list and wine program development, and viticultural weather and climate forecasting services, nationally and abroad.
See also profile in the Washington Business Journal:
http://www.VinoVeritasLLc.com/AJB Wash Biz Journal.pdf
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See also profile in the Washington Business Journal:
http://www.VinoVeritasLLc.com/AJB Wash Biz Journal.pdf
Contact Us