by admin | Oct 11, 2020 | Blog
n Paul Klee – Fire at Full Moon 1933 There is no faking it. As professionals we are judged by how well we do it. It separates the novice from the professional, and it’s the unwritten–even unspoken–goal of any wine training. What is this mysterious...
by admin | Sep 2, 2020 | Blog
n Eduardo Mac Entyre – Lys 3 1977 Structure in wine is important–really important. By structure I mean the levels of alcohol, acidity, phenolic bitterness (white wines), and tannin (red wines). Personally, I think a wine’s structure is its very bones. It...
by admin | Aug 17, 2020 | Blog
n Columbia Pictures One of my core beliefs about wine is that it’s the great connector–it connects us to each other in ways that no other thing, substance, or small household appliance does. That for thousands of years, since the time primitive man first started...
by admin | Jul 19, 2020 | Blog
n “Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical.”Yogi BerraIn deductive tasting, the sensory evaluation sequence when one gathers as information about a wine’s appearance, aroma, and palate is only part of the equation. What’s equally important,...
by admin | Jun 27, 2020 | Blog
n Diana LoMeiHing: In the Factory the Candy Comes Out to Dance I originally published this post almost five years ago. Since then I’ve come to believe that the concept of “cause and effect” is one of the very cornerstones in the process of becoming a good professional...
