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The DOC connoisseur
By The Wine Spectator
Published: 04/11/2007

MIDDLESEX COUNTY, CA - Most people who meet Jonathan Grossweiler don't benefit from his wine knowledge—because they're inmates—but his tough job didn't keep him from learning about and loving wine.

"When I was discharged from the Marine Corps in 1998, I said to myself, 'What can I do besides shoot you from 500 meters? Be a marksman for the Mafia?' I needed to find a new skill set. But also a passion," says Jonathan Grossweiler, 34. As a civilian, after seven years as a Marine, he became a corrections officer at a prison for sex offenders in Middlesex County, N.J. But that was just a job. The passion turned out to be wine. Read more.

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