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The Quest for Joe Begins.. 23 Aug 2013 | 05:57 am
Let it begin with a chase.. I wrote about Western Grace Brandy in the post ‘That’s some damn fine brandy you’ve got there’. I got to talking with two of the WGB dudes (hope they don’t mind me shor...
Shark feeding frenzy in Santa Cruz 15 Aug 2013 | 11:36 am
I participated in a triathlon this past weekend. I trained for the biking and the running ad nauseum, but the swimming I only practiced about five times in a pool and a brief jaunt in the ocean off of...
Is that Tilda Swinton you’re drinking? 8 Aug 2013 | 11:27 am
I’m hip deep in putting together a wine list for a restaurant in Los Angeles. Creating a wine list that is complex, intriguing, recognizable and cheap is a difficult task. There are so many other fac...
Oh Loire, I love your wine.. 1 Aug 2013 | 12:04 pm
For dinner I fixed salmon and asparagus with capers. I also ate split pea soup with a very complex, earthy, organic celery. I wanted a wine to go with the richness of the salmon, but I did not want it...
Family Winemakers of California 24 Jul 2013 | 11:27 pm
Usually I tell you about wine tastings after they have happened. That’s just mean, I know. “Hey look how much fun I had. You shoulda been there!” I talk about these wine tastings because I find wines...
That is some damn fine Brandy you’ve got there… 18 Jul 2013 | 12:52 pm
I went to the Craft Spirits Carnival in San Francisco a couple weeks ago, and for the second year in a row I had a blast. What is not to like about having hundreds of handcrafted elegant spirits u...
South Africa 9 Jul 2013 | 10:52 am
When I was in my intro-sommelier course nearly a decade ago, one of the master sommeliers described a wine in an intriguing way. He said that every time he tried a certain varietal that he thought of ...
Holzgeschmack? 2 Jul 2013 | 12:11 pm
What is Holzgeschmack? Besides being a fun sounding word? It is the German word for the character that a wooden (typically oak) barrel imparts upon wine. How much wood is too much? When wine mak...
The chemical composition of wine and those annoying honky horns 25 Jun 2013 | 10:36 am
I had someone ask me today about the chemical composition of wine. I responded with “Um… that is a very broad subject. Do you want to know about the acids found in wine (tartaric, citric, aceti...
Communication 14 Jun 2013 | 10:31 am
Many years ago, my brother got married. A mutual friend put together the bachelor party, and he added an interesting twist. He manacled a ball and chain to my brother’s ankle that he was forced to ...
