![]() ![]() I had first written a business plan in the mid 1990s around the idea of offering small, luxurious boutique hotels and restaurants in California wine country, and being based in Carmel I was fortunate to be in the perfect place to finally make it happen. I was working in a ‘dream job’ at the time but I wanted to be more entrepre- neurial and put my home in Carmel, my family, and doing what I loved first. I wanted control and to create some- thing truly special. However, when 9/11 hit the United States, it was shocking on so many levels and led to a huge re-evaluation of what I wanted and what was important. I worked for many different companies throughout California in the first part of my career. Not only was it great bang for the buck in terms of pay (for a teenage boy, at least) but I also discovered a natural love for hosting which has now been my business for over 40 years. My mother made sure to imbue that approach to life into all her children whilst we were growing up.ĭuring high school, all I wanted was to date the most beautiful girls I could … but for that, I needed money, so I started working hospitality jobs as a waiter. I grew up in Virginia (my English and Scottish ancestors first settled there in 1621) a state which just has the most incredible sense of true Southern hospitality. My journey started with my mother and my Southern background. How did you find your way into the world of luxury hospitality? Your company, the Mirabel Group, is known for its portfolio of outstanding boutique hotels and restaurants. With so much to talk about, it was therefore a great pleasure to catch up with David to find out a little more about ‘Mister California’ himself. This excitement and passion is David in a nutshell, bringing a level of joy to his world of ultra-fine wine and hospitality that is so infectious it’s impossible not to get swept up in the moment.ĭavid’s stories are peppered with entertaining anecdotes, fascinating people (he counts Aubert de Villaine of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti amongst his close friends, for example) and the recollections of many, many bottles of incredible wine enjoyed in a dizzying number of amazing settings through the years. ‘Look at that fill!’ He gives the bottle a proud kiss and returns it safely to its home. ‘You’ll like this’ he promises, producing a pristine magnum of 1999 Armand Rousseau Chambertin Grand Cru. INQUA Paleo-climate sub-program 0407.David Fink grins as he reaches into the wine rack beside him. Timing and Nature of Mountain Glacier Advances, from 5e to YD.Australasian INTIMATE: Interaction of ice cores, Marine and Terrestrial Records).IAEA Cooperative Research Program: Nuclear and Isotopic Studies of ENSO in the Ocean, 2004-2007.Archaeology and Geoscience Advisory Committee, AINSE (Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering) Grants Scheme (1998-2005).on Isotopes Monaco, 2004 AGU- Western Pacific Geophysics Conf 2002. Conf session chairperson: at the 15th and 18th Int Radiocarbon Conf (2000,2003), 8th and 10th Int Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Conf (2000,2005), IAEA Int Conf.on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Proceedings publication: Nuclear Instruments and Methods B, B92: 1-512, 1994, Elsevier Science, NWG Macintosh Centre for Radiocarbon Dating, Univ Sydney, 2002-2003.Adjunct Professor, Dept of Physical Geography, Univ of Macquarie, 2005.Ph.D (Accelerator Mass Spectrometry : techniques and applications),1987.Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering ExpandĪccelerator Mass Spectrometry, Radiocarbon, paleoclimate isotopic studies, cosmogenic exposure age dating, landscape geomorphology, glacial climate change and chronologies, meteorites, nuclear physics.Neutron Activation Analysis and Neutron irradiation.Reconstructing Australia’s fire history. ![]()
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