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Thursday, February 28, 2013

What We're Reading

Compiled by the editors of HoseMaster of Wine ™ WINE SPECTATOR : You’ll want to read Jenna Talia Baiocchi’s final column for Wine Spect...

Monday, February 25, 2013

Welcome to the Stuffed Winery Dog Diorama!

I paid a visit to the Vintners Hall of Fame in St. Helena recently, and was pleasantly surprised to find that they had opened a new wing. N...

Thursday, February 21, 2013

The Legend of Parr Bunyan--Greatest Sommelier Who Ever Lived

Now I know you’ve all heard the tall tales about Paul Bunyan, greatest woodsman to ever live, able to clear a forest the size of Montana wi...

Monday, February 18, 2013

BLANDNESS--The Best of HoseMaster

One of my favorite authors is the late Nobel Prize Winner Jose Saramago. This piece was originally published in April of 2010, a couple of ...

Thursday, February 14, 2013

The HoseMaster's Application to be the New Pope

Dear Cardinal Perroti-Brown, I am interested in applying for the recently vacated position of Pope at The Wine Advocate . I’m certain that ...

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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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