HoseMaster of Wine™

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

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The Natural Wines of Splooge Estate

Thank you for joining Ejaculate ™, the Wine Club here at Splooge Estate and Winery. You’ll be receiving your first load in the next fe...

Thursday, May 24, 2012

The 2012 Wine Blog Awards! Let's Karaoke!

It’s that time of year again. Nominations are open for the Wine Blog Awards, or, as I call them, the POODLES . If you lean in and listen ...

Monday, May 21, 2012

Wineries Need to Jump On the AntiSocial Media Band Wagon

When it comes right down to it, the wine business is habitually slow to capitalize on new societal trends. This is because alcohol dulls ...

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

DIAL M.W. FOR MURDER

A HOSEMASTER OF WINE ™ PULP FICTION CLASSIC Chapter 4: The Bodily Fluid Fandango Master of Wine. Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t...

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Mom: A RePost for Mother's Day

Originally posted May 2010 My Mother died in December of 2007. A week after she died I sat down and wrote this brief and inadequate tribu...

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About Me

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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