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Christmas 2013
Raise your hand if you love Steely Dan. Now raise your glass if you love Steely Dan while sipping good Pinot Noir. There’s something about the smoothness with a slight edge and complexity of the...
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New Year’s Eve 2013-2014
My mood, for some reason, definitely calls for some of my favorite French songs today - and right now it’s a duet by Francoise Hardy and Etienne Daho, and I could listen to this song over and over (in...
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Malbec
I enjoy pouring wine tastings. Even when I’m pouring somewhere other than my regular Friday gig, if someone asks me something ridiculous or takes a cheap shot at a wine I’m showing for no legitimate...
View ArticleHasenpfeffer - re-posted from Here, Taste This!
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Trevallon, 3 Years of Blogging, & Some Strange Descriptors
It’s still really cold, so I’m by the fireplace tonight with Cotes du Rhone and Jacques Pepin and Julia Child on in the background. This winter has brought some wonderful wines my way - and as I’ve...
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UGC 2014
I had the pleasure of attending the tasting of the 2011 vintage of Bordeaux at the Union des Grands Crus event at the Waldorf-Astoria a couple of weeks ago. I already knew in advance that it was a...
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Hungarian Wines for Super Bowl
I have 2 reasons for writing blog posts on consecutive days: one is that I had some catching up to, considering I’m attending another big tasting again this week (Gambero Rosso - Tre Bicchieri) and so...
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Gambero Rosso Tre Bicchieri NYC 2014
Well, as I’ve been doing lately, I’ll tell you what I’m drinking and what I’m listening to - one of my favorite good value California Cabernet - Sawbuck, and Antiques Roadshow is on in the background...
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What Are You Waiting For?
Listening to French music and sipping on a Refosco, and I’ve got lots of things running though my mind - too many thoughts for an evening spent alone.Anyone who knows me well knows that I like buying...
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Tannat - Making Believers
Sipping Primitivo and listening Tommy Emmanuel, I’m thinking.I know I’m always saying that anyone who knows me, and then go on about how “it’s no secret that” blah blah - well here I go again.It’s no...
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When I Need a Little Bounce in My Step
Yes, I know I just wrote a blog post 2 days ago, but I had some thoughts. I realize that this blog has become more a philosophy and how wine sort of parallels things in our lives (or at the very least...
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Nebbiolo Revisited
A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post about this thing we started calling, “The Nebbiolo Man” - it got quite a bit of attention, and whether it was for the right or the wrong reasons...well,...
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1998 Beaucastel and Creating a Special Experience
I’m watching the Yankees/Red Sox game (and of course the Yankees are winning!) - and a white Cotes du Rhone was what I had tonight. But right now I’m eating - believe it or not - Rainbow Nerds. It’s...
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Easter 2014
As usual, I’ll tell you what’s going on - it’s hard to choose what I want to listen to/watch, as there was the Papal canonization today, Turn is on, and the Yankee game is on - thank goodness for dvr!...
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Research
I took my sommelier exam 3 years ago. I’ve been pouring regular tastings for 2.5 years, and I’ve been a wine rep just over 2 years. Lots of people I’ve met in the wine industry ask me how I know so...
View Article2011 Quinta do Vale Meao + 2000 Zind-Humbrecht Clos Windsbuhl Gewurztraminer...
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Guild of Sommeliers Master Class: Washington State
I love master classes hosted by the Guild of Sommeliers - they’re really informative and the opportunity to taste through plenty of wines from different regions is fantastic.This time, I finally got to...
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Champagne/Sparkling Wine Tasting
It’s too early to report that I’m drinking anything, but I’ll tell you that I had some fun wine last night - a sparkling wine from Provence, vintage 2010, Cinsault/Grenache extra brut, methode...
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MADIRAN | The Wine Bar
So, in case you missed the big news a couple of days ago - I announced that in 2015, I will be opening my very own wine bar! Plans have been underway for quite some time, but due to somewhat recent...
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Pinot Noir: Revisited
“These California wines are all so good...”“What did you expect? Thunderbird?”I still chuckle at this quote every time I watch Bottle Shock, which is very often - probably much more often than I’d...
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Alto Adige GuildSomm Master Class
I attended the Guild of Sommeliers master class on Alto Adige at the end of June - I was so hoping to get into that class as it was small and limited in seating, and when I first tried to get in, it...
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Bonny Doon + Brewology
Menu/Wine PairingsUsually, when I have some kind of extraordinary wine experience, it’s a fabulous bottle from France or Italy or Austria - at least, those generally are the kind of experiences that I...
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Krug Grande Cuvee
I will shamefully admit that the bottle of Krug we opened over the weekend was my first bottle of Krug, ever. Considering how long I’ve loved wine and the fact that Krug is such an important Champagne...
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Ugly Realities
We have all kinds of friends, but, at least for me, the most trusted and often the most treasured are the ones who not only share in our joys and sorrows and build us up, but also they know how to be...
View ArticleNot Quite Right
You open a bottle.You pour it into the glass.You look at it. You swirl and sniff it. You taste it.Repeat. And again. And again.Something is not quite right. But what, then? It doesn’t look right,...
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