by admin | Jul 19, 2012 | Blog
n Pixar Usually I just roll with things and not too much bothers me. But like everybody else, I do a have my pet peeves with the wine world. Here are a few of them replete with more than a touch of hyperbole and sarcasm.Neon-Colored Plastic CorksA public service...
by admin | Jul 13, 2012 | Blog
n The Café at the Victoria & Albert Museum In and of itself, lunch is usually not a big deal. Most of the time it’s partaken solo either on the run, at one’s desk, or even in the car. Unless there’s a good reason to actually “plan” lunch as in sharing time with a...
by admin | Jul 5, 2012 | Blog
n “It’s an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem.”Douglas Adams from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GalaxyNot long ago I finished re-reading the Douglas Adams novel, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. If you’ve not read it, I highly...
by admin | Jun 28, 2012 | Blog
n My last post was the first of two installments comprised of advice I’ve given to tasting students over the years. In it I offered strategies concerning the overall use of the M.S. tasting grid as well as pointers for looking at and smelling wine in the context of an...
by admin | Jun 26, 2012 | Blog
n This post is really geared to MS students in exam mode, specifically the tasting exam. Many students and fellow Masters (including me) consider the tasting exam to be by far the most challenging of the three segments of the overall M.S. examination (theory and...
by admin | Jun 21, 2012 | Blog
n Photo by Kent Hanson The Wente Clone Turns 100This week saw two important celebrations for 100th birthdays in the wine world. First, an outstanding symposium at Wente Vineyards in Livermore on Monday celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Wente clone of...
