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...
by admin | Dec 9, 2019 | Blog
n It’s the holidays yada yada. Once again, the year is careening to a close with alarming finality and potential for collateral damage. Family dinners and corporate gatherings loom large on the horizon like accidents waiting to happen. Now more than ever the art of...
by admin | Nov 24, 2019 | Blog
n As times goes on, I have fewer criteria for the wines I like to drink on a regular basis. First, regardless of place or grape, a wine has to be well-made and typical for what it is. Mineral and earth qualities help keep my interest. But above all, a wine has to be...
by admin | Nov 2, 2019 | Blog
n “Wine is complicated. Almost impossibly so.”Jamie GoodeRecently I was in Brooklyn for a meeting. Dinner the first night was with four MS colleagues. The menu was shellfish and seafood-based and the wine list was small but eclectic—no surprise given that we were in...
