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Jason Pack Founder and CEO
Jason Pack is an author, academic, entrepreneur and media commentator. His primary vocation is historical writing, political commentary and risk management consulting about the Middle East. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Guardian and Foreign Affairs. He appears frequently on the BBC, Al-Jazeera, Voice of America and CNN. His cultural commentary (including wine writing) has appeared in The Spectator, London Review of Books, WineSofa, Georgia Today and The Times Literary Supplement.
Jason was blessed to grow up in a household with an extensive, yet conventional, cellar. Only later in life did he discover that there was a lot more to wine than Napa, Bordeaux and Burgundy -- and that paradoxically encounters with Sagrantino di Montefalco, Tokaji, English sparkling, red Etnas and the like could more reliably produce transformative drinking experiences than decades old bottles of the classics.
Jason’s work and travels have brought him to over sixty countries. As a serious student of the Islamic world where wine connoisseurship and public drinking rituals are either unknown or forbidden, he became captivated by the history of wine in Europe and its crucial role in the development of Western cultural and sacred traditions.
