Jeremy has worked in nearly every capacity of the wine industry, including sales, service, and media.
After completing his doctorate in Italian at U.C.L.A. in 1997, he moved to New York City where he found work as an editor at the newly launched English-language La Cucina Italiana. By the following year, he had become the magazine’s wine and cocktail writer. The Italian food and wine renaissance had already taken full form in Manhattan and was soon to spread across the U.S.
In 2000, he launched his Italian-wine-focused media consulting company Do Bianchi and began working as a freelance food and wine writer.
In 2008, he relocated to Texas to follow a relationship that would ultimately become a family. He also happened to move to the fastest-growing food and wine market in the country at the time.
The move didn’t stop him from launching a critically acclaimed wine list at Sotto in Los Angeles, with his old friend Chef Steve Samson behind the now legendary wood-fired grill.
By the mid-2010s, he was already a sought-after speaker, educator, and wine tour leader.
He has served as ambassador for multiple Italian wine regions, including Franciacorta, Colli Orientali del Friuli, and most recently Abruzzo.
He has also worked as an editor for Slow Wine USA and has taught in the graduate program at the Slow Food University of Gastronomic Sciences in Piedmont, Italy.
His personal blog, DoBianchi, is known for its humanist perspective into the world of Italian wine, food, and culture.
He lives in his Houston with his wife Tracie, a realtor, their two daughters and two chihuahuas.
Jeremy plays guitar and sings one Sunday afternoon a month at Emmit’s Place in southwest Houston, his favorite dive bar in town.
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