Founded in 2002, Thomas Calder Selections represents a collection of hand-picked, family-owned estates in France, Spain and Switzerland. Owned and managed by Thomas Calder, an American living in Paris since 1996, we have amassed an impressive portfolio of top quality domaines.

Before pursuing a career in the wine business, Thomas Calder was a PhD student in English Literature at the University of Virginia. His interest in wine developed while in college when he and a friend vowed to assemble the "perfect liquor cabinet". When they ran out of spirits to taste, Thomas' friend encouraged him to lead a wine tasting group.

He taught wine tasting classes while in graduate school, then took a job as a wine buyer at a gourmet shop and decided to work with wine and words. A few years after becoming the owner of the shop, he decided to increase his wine knowledge by apprenticing at a winery in the Loire Valley.

When he returned to the US nine months later, he worked as the wine buyer for a number of stores in Washington, DC, as a sommelier, taught wine tasting classes, and helped Fran Kysela start Kysela Père et Fils in 1994.

He returned to France on a regular basis, travelling with importers, taking a continuing education class in oenology and tasting at the University of Bordeaux, and working for a few months at Maison Chapoutier in 1990. He has picked grapes in the Maconnais and Champagne and vinified in the Jura.