by admin | Aug 17, 2014 | Blog
n “A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”Shakespeare from Twelfth NightLast year I sat down to interview Yosh Han, an internationally known custom perfumer. Like previous interviews with wine industry colleagues, I wanted to deconstruct...
by admin | Jul 20, 2014 | Blog
n Dateline March 20th, 2014 on BBC Online: “The human nose can detect one trillion different odors, far more than we previously thought, say US scientists.”Back story: for the better part of the last 15 or more years, the Deductive Tasting PPT segment in the MS...
by admin | Jul 7, 2014 | Blog
n Fall semester of my undergrad sophomore year. Karl Hinterbichler, trombone professor and my brass quintet coach at the University of New Mexico (UNM), suggests I attend the workshop to be given by members of the Beaux Arts Trio the following day. Mind you, I’m a...
by admin | Jun 20, 2014 | Blog
n Sabato Sagaria, MS Aspen, May of 2012; day two of the Master’s tasting exam. Sabato Sagaria from the Little Nell Resort–the exam venue hotel–is one of the last candidates of the day scheduled for our panel. This was Sabato’s third and final attempt at...
by admin | May 25, 2014 | Blog
n Last week the Master’s Exam in Aspen concluded after four days with five individuals named as new Master Sommeliers. Before going further, I want to congratulate them: Alexander LaPratt of Atrium in Brooklyn, Pascaline Lepeltier of Rouge Tomate in New York, Andrew...
by admin | May 15, 2014 | Blog
n Twenty years before publishing the theory of relativity Einstein first imagined himself riding on a beam of light. In Ron Suskind’s recent book, “Life, Animated,” he and his wife Cornelia were only able to begin communicating with their autistic son Owen by using...
