by admin | Apr 15, 2015 | Blog
n Warner Brothers Animation If you’re in the business long enough it will happen. In fact, it’s inevitable. At some point you will be asked to be part of a panel discussion for a tasting and/or seminar. If you do enough of these panel discussions, Darwin’s law on...
by admin | Apr 6, 2015 | Blog
n Geoff Kruth, MS is the COO of the Guild of Sommeliers. With the help of Matt Stamp, MS, Kruth oversees guildsomm.com, arguably the finest online resource for both wine and the sommelier community. Geoff is also an outstanding tasting coach and recently I interviewed...
by admin | Mar 24, 2015 | Blog
n Nickelodeon Animation Studios I’m no stranger to test-performance anxiety. I have two degrees in music and in my student days I dealt with taking auditions and playing performances. I clearly remember my first time playing a solo in Keller Hall, the recital hall at...
by admin | Mar 11, 2015 | Blog
n I’ve blogged extensively about tasting over the last three years but never about the basics of the Master Sommelier deductive tasting grid or how to use it—until now. Here’s a play-by-play description of how to use the grid. If you don’t already have a copy of the...
by admin | Feb 26, 2015 | Blog
n October 29, 2014; game seven of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals. In the bottom of the fifth inning Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner enters the game with the score tied 2-2. In the remaining five innings of the game the...
by admin | Feb 16, 2015 | Blog
n “The map is not the territory.” Alford KorzybskiBehavioral scientists tell us that we are bombarded by over a billion bits of sensory information every second. To cope with...
