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Monday, December 10, 2018

Please Give This Christmas, So I Don't Have To

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What I dread about Christmas are the gifts. For example, I don’t want a Coravin. Coravins are stupid. Somebody is going to give me a goddam...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

What Makes A Wine Worth Drinking: In Praise of the Sublime Via the Ridiculous

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  With apologies to Mr. Theise. I just couldn't help myself... I shop at a small farmers’ market in my town. Small because all the f...
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Monday, November 5, 2018

The Court of Master Sommeliers: Who Says Cheaters Never Proctor?

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My first reaction to the news that 23 new Master Sommeliers were having their letters recalled by the Court after one of the proctors...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

SOMM11

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With the imminent release of SOMM11, I thought it would be useful to briefly recap the first ten films in the series. The franchise shows n...
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Thursday, October 4, 2018

Our Vanishing Master Sommeliers

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Researchers say there are no more than 273 of them left in the world. Many of the males are old, long past a desirable reproductive age. ...
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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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