HoseMaster of Wine™

"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."--Fran Lebowitz

Friday, July 31, 2009

The Year of the HoseMaster

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In August of 2008 an unemployed sommelier (OK, that's redundant) decided to start a blog. Looking back nearly a year later, this still s...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Tasting Room Lies

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Ladies and Gentlemen, this may come as a shock to you, but the people in tasting rooms are often paid to lie to you. Like Fox News anchors, ...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

The Wine Hall of Fame

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Yesterday was the induction ceremony for baseball's Hall of Fame. I've often written about my love of both wine and baseball, both, ...
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Friday, July 24, 2009

Interview With A HoseMaster, Part II

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Why aren't you attending the Wine Bloggers Conference? Sadly, it fell on the same weekend I have my electroshock treatments, though the ...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

In Vulva Veritas

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I am so happy to be here at the 2009 Wine Bloggers Conference! It's like the Oscars only everyone's wearing GarAnimals. I can't ...
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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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