by admin | Oct 20, 2014 | Blog
n At age 14 Matt Citriglia was stocking beer, wine, and soda at his father’s tiny beverage store in Ohio. At age 17 he read his first “non-teacher” assigned book, “Alexis Lichine’s Guide to the Wines and Vineyards of France.” Thus began a life-long journey...
by admin | Oct 13, 2014 | Blog
n I first met good friend Peter Granoff in March of 1990 at our Introductory Course at the Monterey Plaza Hotel. At the time Peter, was the wine director and sommelier at Fournou’s Ovens at the Stanford Court Hotel in San Francisco. He and I then both passed the...
by admin | Oct 1, 2014 | Blog
n October marks 30 years that Carla and I have lived in San Francisco. We moved to California after I finished graduate school at the University of Michigan in January of 1984, initially settling in San Mateo because of the usual periodic housing shortage in the city....
by admin | Sep 21, 2014 | Blog
n Emily Papach, MS has worked in several different areas in the wine industry over the last decade. She started with a four year stint at Gramercy Tavern in New York and then returned home to Virginia to work for fellow MS Fran Kysela, at Kysela Pere et Fils, the...
by admin | Sep 6, 2014 | Blog
n Warner Brothers Studio The last movie I ever saw at a drive in was Mel Brooks’ brilliant comedy, Blazing Saddles, in the summer of 1974. A drive in, if you somehow missed out on this seminal American cultural experience, was a place where you paid to drive your car...
by admin | Aug 28, 2014 | Blog
n Malcom Gladwell writes good airplane books. By that I mean Gladwell writes the kind of books you purchase at full retail on the fly (so to speak), at pricey airport bookstores as impulse buys to have something reasonably informative and/or entertaining to read while...
