The Tasting Book

The Tasting Book

My tasting book is finally “live.” If you’re dangerously excited by that prospect and don’t want to bother with all the descriptive text below, you can just go to the following link on Amazon and order a copy or two: Otherwise, here’s some pertinent...
2022 Holiday Book Bag

2022 Holiday Book Bag

Message in the Bottle: A Guide to Tasting Wine, by Tim Gaiser, MS This year’s holiday reading roundup begins with a bit of shameless self-promotion about my new tasting book. I’ve been working on it for over 10 years, and the pandemic finally gave me an...
Olfactory Epiphany

Olfactory Epiphany

As Frenchmen go, he wasn’t exactly Maurice Chevalier or Gérard Depardieu. But what he lacked in charm or good looks he more than made up for in expertise in smelling and tasting spirits–and I will forever be in his debt. I only wish I had learned his name so I...
Gritty Chicken

Gritty Chicken

The floor was greasy that day my friends.   There’s an old saying that goes something like this. Comedy is when you stub your toe. Tragedy is when I stub my toe. The incident that night in the kitchen was actually both. But it made my wife Carla laugh. In fact,...
Vin Blanc

Vin Blanc

Photo by Andy Anderson “Whenever life begins to crush me I know I can rely on Bandol, garlic, and Mozart.”   Jim Harrison   Recently I reread Jim Harrison’s last book called “A Really Big Lunch.” If not familiar, Harrison was a prolific writer of poetry and...