HoseMaster of Wine™

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

Monday, June 28, 2010

The HoseMaster's Honest Guide to Grapes Volume 6

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When you're at a dinner party and the hosts break out an interesting bottle of wine, what's the first thing you think? Well, if you...
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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Pinotage, Poodles and Poetry

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I usually like to post pieces about one subject. I have this regulator in my brain that tells me how long a post should be, how far to take ...
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Monday, June 21, 2010

OOPS

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Oh, to be headed to Walla Walla and the Wine Bloggers Conference! It would be like a dream come true. All of those talented and brilliant bl...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Obituaries, and Other Good News

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It's been a somber week for the HoseMaster . Death can do that to you. I mean actual Death, not the living death that reading Reign of T...
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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Letters, I Get Letters, I Get Stacks and Stacks of Letters

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As you might imagine, my mailbox overflows with hate mail. Most of it from the AARP. Old fucks. But a lot of it comes from Viewers Like You....
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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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