by admin | Oct 8, 2012 | Blog
n As a kid, I remember watching Johnny Carson do his monologue on the Tonight Show. Aside from all the jokes, some good and others lame, what really struck me was how dramatically Carson changed in mere seconds from back stage to the bright lights. After the curtains...
by admin | Oct 1, 2012 | Blog
n This is a follow up to the recent post on Champagne service. As with Champagne service, decanting is a very straight forward process with really only one way to do it correctly and a multitude of ways to do it wrong. Here’s a step by step break down accompanied by...
by admin | Sep 21, 2012 | Blog
n This post has been a long time coming. The tipping point was a recent Saturday night when I shared dinner with a good friend and fellow Master at a bistro somewhere in the nation’s heartland. We’ll leave it at that. We ordered a bottle of Blanc de Blancs from an...
by admin | Sep 14, 2012 | Blog
n I transferred to a different school early in the first semester of eighth grade, moving from a small very conservative Catholic school to a much larger public junior high. Rather than be traumatized at the move mid-stream, I was elated at having escaped the clutches...
by admin | Sep 3, 2012 | Blog
n I like Australia. It’s so far from the rest of the world that strange and even bizarre things happen there and no one else seems to notice. Consider this: Australia is the only country that ever lost a head of state. That’s right, in 1967 then Prime...
by admin | Aug 22, 2012 | Blog
n So you think you know everything …My reward for passing the Master’s Exam in March of 1992 was to work Sunday brunch two days later. It wasn’t punishment, it was just how the schedule worked out and I wasn’t about to pass the shift off on the other two sommeliers...
