by admin | Mar 11, 2021 | Blog
n René Magritte, The Portrait, 1935 It was April 2006. I’d been in Portugal for the better part of a week with good friend and fellow MS Keith Goldston. We were guests of AMORIM, Portugal’s largest cork producer. For the past several days we had toured cork factories,...
by admin | Feb 4, 2021 | Blog
Something often overlooked in tasting books or even tasting classes is basic instruction on how best to pick up a glass of wine and, for lack of a better term, address it. Further, the value of discovering the best angle to hold the glass and smelling techniques to...
by admin | Dec 6, 2020 | Blog
n Everyone, hope you are keeping safe and well. Welcome to the holidays in a time of pandemic. Odds are you’ve done more reading this year with the quarantine thing than in previous. I know I have. And we could all use a good book right about now. Here is a list of...
by admin | Nov 23, 2020 | Blog
n Hola from New Mexico. I hope everyone is keeping safe and well. Welcome to the lockdown version of the holidays. We may be huddling in our bunkers with immediate family or roommates, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy a delicious bottle of vino or two with our...
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...
