HoseMaster of Wine™

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

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Sam Euthanasia, World's Oldest Wine Critic, on 2016 Bordeaux

›
While other critics try to be the first to publish scores of a new Bordeaux vintage, Sam Euthanasia, who, at 95, is the World’s Oldest Wine...
2 comments:
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

New Releases from Climate Change Cellars!

›
We’re well into veraison here at Climate Change Cellars, so it must be Spring! And that means new releases, just in time for mosquito seaso...
7 comments:
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Confessions of a Sommelier Serial Killer

›
So it was the first guy I killed that gave me the taste for it. You know how you were a young wannabe somm once, and you’d tell your wine-i...
21 comments:
Monday, April 10, 2017

Scork Dork: Another Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Pestilential Wine Critics, Score Whores, and Fake Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Crappy Wine

›
The first thing that happens when you’re thirty years old, you write a landmark book about wine that lands on “The New York Times” bestsel...
10 comments:
Friday, April 7, 2017

EPHEMERA: My Wine Enthusiast Piece

›
There’s something interesting about writing satire. It’s a way to express a part of yourself that much of the time you suppress—the part ...
6 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
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.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.