Some exciting news, peeps: I’m partnering with the folks at Wine Future 2021, an industry conference that is going fully virtual and online for the new year! You can check out the program for more details, but the TLDR version is that those of you who are in the wine biz (and those of you…
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Judge Not, Lest Ye Be A Judge (Talking Wine Competition Judging at NVWA)
A quick update about wine competition judging… while I’m on the road, coincidentally, heading out to judge at the 2020 McMinnville Wine & Food Classic Wine Competition! [ Editor’s update: Unfortunately, I had to bail due to a heinous stomach bug :-( ] My latest piece for the Napa Valley Wine Academy is now live,…
Or, We Could Just Go Back to OR… (McMinnville Wine & Food Classic 2020 Competition)
Presumably because its polite residents haven’t yet learned their lesson, I’ve been invited back to Oregon to help judge the 2020 McMinnville Wine & Food Classic Wine Competition, to be held January 11. It’s been the better part of eighteen months since I’ve had my boots on the ground in that fine state, so I’m…
Nikko Suave (Results of the 2019 San Francisco International Wine Competition)
This year I once again had the honor of judging alongside several of my wine biz cohorts at what has become one of my favorite weekends all year: the San Francisco International Wine Competition, held at the swanky and suave Hotel Nikko in downtown SF. The 2019 SFIWC incarnation took place November 9th through November…
