DRC & Friends
July 12, 2025 M.Q. Burgheads | Magnolia, Seattle The Prelude I flew from San Jose to Seattle. A short flight to join a group of thirteen Burgundy collectors — a focused subset of the larger MQ society: mostly VCs, founders, and executives who love wine deeply and seriously. Each person brought treasures from their cellar for one epic night of some of the greatest and most interesting Burgundies on Earth. For this, I would have flown anywhere. In the Uber on the way to the event, anticipation building, time seemed to slow. It dawned on me that everything that had happened in my wine life up to this point had led me here to what was surely destined to be a once in a lifetime experience. I didn’t know how it would affect me, but I was sure it would. I swallowed hard, almost gasping, knowing that in less than an hour I’d be swallowing some of the most coveted elixirs in the wine world. Goosebumps. A friend once called it “wine- do ” — as in ju- do , aiki- do , taekwon- do . A path. A ...