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Monday, December 18, 2017

The HoseMaster of Wine's™ Cover Letter to Wine Advocate

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Dear Ms. Perrotti-Brown, I thought I’d save you the trouble of contacting me first. I know with all of the recent defections from “Wine Adv...
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Monday, January 23, 2017

C.S.W. Like Me

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I’m a C.S.W. There, I’ve said it. Certified Specialist of Wine. I am a member of a group that represents the most knowledgeable among us wh...
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Monday, December 19, 2016

What to Buy Your Master Sommelier for Christmas!

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If you’re like me, right about now you’re wondering what to buy for the Master Sommelier in your life for Christmas. There are 230 Master S...
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Monday, November 21, 2016

Flying the Friendly Skies

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Here’s what I’ve been feeling the past few weeks. We were on this large jet flying to somewhere beautiful, some sort of Paradise, we thou...
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Monday, October 24, 2016

Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan on Wine

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While it may have come as something of a shock to many people when Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, it certainly ...
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Thursday, September 1, 2016

Alice in Naturaland, or Through the Isinglass

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Lisa Perrotti-Brown was one of the panelists on a seminar about minerality I attended at the Napa Valley Professional Wine Writers Symposiu...
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Ron Washam, HMW
After 19 years as a Sommelier in Los Angeles, twice named Sommelier of the Year by the Southern California Restaurant Writers' Association, I moved to Sonoma County to explore the other aspects of the wine business. I've spent, OK wasted, 35 years learning about and teaching about and swallowing wine. I am also a judge at the Sonoma Harvest Fair, San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition and the San Francisco International Wine Competition--so I can spit like a rabid llama. I know more about wine than David Sedaris and I'm funnier than James Laube. Stay tuned for an informed but jaded view of everything wine and everything else.
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