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Thursday, May 28, 2015

EPHEMERA: Cult Wines and Wine Cults

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Back in the 1980’s and ’90’s, the wine world was obsessed with cult wines. Cult wines were almost strictly from California (there were ou...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Karen MacNeil Speaks to the Wine Bloggers' Conference

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The featured speaker for the 2015 Wine Bloggers’ Conference is Karen MacNeil, author of The Wine Bible . Many of us believe that The Wi...
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Thursday, May 21, 2015

EPHEMERA: Abolish Sommelier (A Bait-and-Switch Blog Title)

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I was just thinking the other day about how much different it would be to be a working sommelier now. I haven’t walked a restaurant floor...
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Monday, May 18, 2015

What We Lie About When We Lie About Wine

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The HoseMaster of Wine ™ is proud to announce the publication of his first book, “What We Lie About When We Lie About Wine.” If the HoseM...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

TAPAS Before We Kill Again--Part Dos

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If you’re like me (God forbid), every time you taste a lousy wine at a large public tasting like TAPAS, you automatically think about all...
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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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