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...
by admin | Aug 10, 2012 | Blog
n MTV In Master Sommelier classes and tasting examinations we ask students to assess the structural components of wine, specifically the levels of residual sugar, alcohol, acidity, and tannin, as well as the length and quality of the finish. Further, we ask them to...
by admin | Aug 4, 2012 | Blog
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