by admin | Sep 30, 2026 | Blog
How do we internally process the wine experience? In a recent post I detailed the first part of my wine presentation at the Texsom conference in August called “An approach to tasting.” The first post was about six skills I thought students needed to learn and industry...
by admin | Mar 12, 2025 | Blog
In the last post I explained my internal strategies for looking at a glass of wine in the context of using the deductive tasting grid. At one point I mentioned I thought that the nose of a wine—or smell—was by far the most important aspect of tasting. If anything,...
by admin | Sep 11, 2024 | Blog
It was Christmas dinner in 1981. At the time, I was a grad student at the University of Michigan studying classical trumpet. That first year Carla and I elected not to go home to New Mexico for the holidays, but chose instead to stay in frigidly cold and snowy Ann...
