The story of AmphoraMap starts with our founder and president. Tony’s passion for maps started when he was still a young boy. As navigator planning family vacations to spending hours on the floor at the local library studying National Geographic maps. Once as a teenager, his father wryly observed that unlike other teenage boys Tony’s bedroom walls were covered with maps!

During his first term at university he discovered he could leverage his love of maps into a profession as a geographer and cartographer – much to his parent’s dismay! Upon graduation, his first job was making maps for the university and professors for their soon-to-be published books.

Tony has since enjoyed a successful 30+ year career as a cartographer/geographer in reference publishing and media. His prior positions have included Director of Cartography and Editor-in-Chief at Hammond Map Co., and at the respective headquarters in New York City of The New York Times and The Associated Press as cartographer and infographic journalist.

Tony's wine journey began in late 2007 at a place just south of Monterey, California. The wine was a Barolo from Italy's Piemonte region. What followed was the beginning of a wine obsession, leading to formal study with the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) and current Level 3 Advanced certification in wine, with Merit.