June 19, 2025
Most of us hope to taste at least some great wines sometime in our lives, and those of us in the wine business spend our entire “wine lives” tasting in pursuit of wines’ greatness. In my consulting, greatness is also a theme I build many corporate wine tastings and executive wine seminars around. For who […]
June 5, 2025
One of the comments I most often hear when giving a corporate wine seminar is: “I know what I like when I taste it, but I don’t know how to describe it.” It makes sense. Describing wine is incredibly hard. So hard, that most us revert to using the language of food to describe wine. […]
May 22, 2025
PS: It’s the best time to experience wine country Right now, there’s a lot of sex in the vineyards. (Strictly between the vines of course). And it may sound odd to say, but it’s also a great time to visit wine country. Cultivated vines are hermaphroditic, meaning that the reproductive organs of both sexes are […]
May 19, 2025
One of the most popular executive wine tastings I conduct is a blind tasting of top Bordeaux wines and top Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons. The idea is not to choose a “winner,” since all of the wines are great (and expensive). Rather, it’s to experience what I’ll call the “wow of place.” Where grapes were […]
