HoseMaster of Wine™

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

Friday, January 29, 2010

Notes On a Sellout's Book

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Writing HoseMaster of Wine is a lot easier than I make it look. Wine and the business of wine are subjects I've spent my life studying,...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The M.S. Conspiracy

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A HoseMaster of Wine Pulp Fiction Classic Chapter 11 Bullet From Nowhere Lately I'd been in more cavities than Mike Tyson's denti...
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Monday, January 25, 2010

Pollan Count

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I get a kick out of aphorisms, those little nuggets of wisdom that sound smart but deconstruct into simplemindedness upon examination. The r...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Cleaning Out the HoseMaster's Mental Fridge

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In the course of the intensive research I conduct for HoseMaster of Wine I accumulate hundreds and hundreds of little tidbits about wine. T...
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What's the HoseMaster Drinking?

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KENNETH-CRAWFORD 2004 SYRAH LAFOND VINEYARD SANTA RITA HILLS I haven't the vaguest idea how this bottle got into my wine cellar. I broke...
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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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