by admin | Jan 20, 2014 | Blog
n Hugh Macleod from gapingvoid.com Recently, I was listening to Michael Krasny interview wine importer extraordinaire Kermit Lynch on a local Bay Area NPR radio affiliate. At the end of the interview Kermit took calls from listeners. One of the callers complained...
by admin | Jan 13, 2014 | Blog
n Gilian Handelman Gilian Handelman is the current director of education and communications for Jackson Family Wines. She began her career as an assistant sommelier in 1987 at Pierce’s restaurant in the Finger Lakes region of New York. But quickly moved into the...
by admin | Jan 5, 2014 | Blog
n Daniel Tammet is a remarkable man. The London born 34-year-old Tammet is both autistic and a savant. In his book, “Born on a Blue Day,” he describes his struggles with autism as a child and young adult; how through sheer force of will, the help of his family, and a...
by admin | Dec 16, 2013 | Blog
n robertmringphotography.com It’s holiday time again and that means we’re about to careen smack into the new year with little, if any, semblance of control. But before then, we’ll have to navigate the perilous tinsel-filled waters of office parties, dysfunctional...
by admin | Nov 28, 2013 | Blog
n In the last post, fellow Master Sur Lucero talked about strategies that helped him pass the exam making him just the 14th individual to be awarded the Remi Krug Cup for passing all three parts of the exam on his first attempt. In part two of the interview Sur talks...
by admin | Nov 20, 2013 | Blog
n My interview with Sur Lucero MS was the third in an ongoing series of tasting interviews with MS and MW colleagues; interviews with the express purpose of discovering their strategies for tasting as well as passing the MS examination in the case of MS...
