by admin | Jun 14, 2020 | Blog
n Perhaps the most often asked question is about the meaning of life. The answer is, of course, 42. Sorry, inside joke. The second most often asked question is what happens to wine as it ages. That question has a far more problematic answer because scientists don’t...
by admin | Apr 23, 2020 | Blog
n Kate Warfield Last fall I had a rare half-day free in New York after a meeting. That night I shared dinner with good friends Beth Cotenoff, of Teuwen Communications, and Ron Merlino. Ron has owned a classical artists management company called MusicVine for over 20...
by admin | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog
n Photo by Carol Sachs I was saddened to hear of the recent passing of Michael Broadbent at the age of 92. He was a true icon of the global industry, and his contributions to wine over the last 60-plus years cannot be measured.Broadbent passed the Master of Wine...
by admin | Mar 14, 2020 | Blog
n Gerhard Richter: Strip 920-6 Everyone, hope you’re keeping safe and healthy during this very strange time. This short missive is about an approach to learning tasting for the beginner student. In the past I’ve said that the process of becoming a professional taster...
by admin | Feb 7, 2020 | Blog
n “Darling, we’ll always have apple…”Recently, I was in Napa teaching my intro to tasting workshop. The students in the class were a mix of industry people and a few consumers who just happened to be in the valley for the day and wanted to take a wine tasting class....
by admin | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog
n Using Internal Visual to Calibrate the Structure in WineA belated Happy New Year to everyone! I hope the holidays provided some much-deserved quality time off with family, friends, and most of all solo down time. This is the time of year when people tend to make...
