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Monday, February 27, 2012

Our Vanishing Wine Bloggers

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Wine Bloggers Conference Perhaps you’ve turned your back so you don’t have to watch. Maybe you are secretly in favor of this travest...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Actual Secrets of a Sommelier

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  THE HOSEMASTER'S BASICS OF WINE APPRECIATION 2 In this edition of Basics of Wine Appreciation we’ll focus on ordering wine in ...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012

On and On and On and On and On and On and On the Wine Trail in Italy

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Life is short. Like the finish of a cheap Prosecco. Like the memories of the young, and the time between an old man’s trips to the bathro...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

My Questionably Funny Valentine

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Are you in love with a wine connoisseur? I’m sorry. Wine isn’t a hobby, it’s a disease, like the mumps, or scarlet fever, or professiona...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012

The HoseMaster's 2012 Top Ten Most Influential People in the Wine Business*

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Oh, I love a good list. Craig’s... Schindler’s…Franz. And making the list yourself gives you a feeling of power and expertise, even if y...
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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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