Poster kids for “un-Napa” style California Cabernet Sauvignons are out there, hiding in plain sight, reveling in their individual terroirs. https://randycaparoso.substack.com/p/sonomas-refreshingly-brazen-alternative
On the culinary waves in the late 1980s and 1990s that shaped the way we sell wine in restaurants today.
Re https://randycaparoso.substack.com/p/how-charlie-trotters-audacity-transformed.
Magazine portrait of young Honolulu sommelier, 1987, nine years into full-time wine career.
#randycaparoso #SommelierLife
‘𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙀 𝙏𝘼𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂’ 
More dumb comics on https://custardfist.com 
Today’s Substack chapter from my upcoming book, Culinary Approach to Wine In Restaurants (https://randycaparoso.substack.com/p/can-narrowly-focused-wine-lists-win) has one message: A wine list does NOT have to be huge and all-encompassing to bring highest prestige and success to a restaurant. #winelist #sommjournal #sommelier #sommelierlife #hospitality #HospitalityManagement #foodandbeverageindustry
In my latest SOMM Journal Bottom Line column, how to work with (or when necessary, against) distributors to build strong wine programs. Re https://sommjournal.com/friend-or-foe-on-working-with-and-sometimes-working-around-distributors/
#winelist #restaurantwine #foodandbeverage #sommeliers #sommelierlife
Today on https://open.substack.com/pub/randycaparoso/p/six-universal-rules-of-thumb?r=3rhbom&utm_medium=ios: From the chapter "Nuts and bolts" in my upcoming book on Restaurant Wine Management...
#restaurantlife #restaurantwine #sommelierlife #sommjournal #winelist #hospitalityindustry #hospitalitymanagementanagement #sommelierbusiness #sommelierdreams #winelist #foodandbeverage #foodandbeverageindustry
My latest Substack entry: In my years in hospitality I have found that wine and food matching is as much a science as instinctive or personal because it can be systematic and verifiable. Re a deep dive... https://open.substack.com/pub/randycaparoso/p/the-scienceand-basic-principlesof?r=3rhbom&utm_medium=ios
#restaurantlife #restaurantwine #sommelierlife #sommjournal #winelist #hospitalityindustry #HospitalityManagement #sommelierbusiness #sommelierdreams #winelist #foodandbeverage
Go to winecholarguild.com to read part 1 of my 2-part piece delving deep into the difficulties, and rewards, of appreciating old vine growths and wines, starting with changes in perception. Re https://www.winescholarguild.com/blog/viticulture-insights/why-appreciation-of-old-vines-is-challenging-yet-more-important-than-ever
#oldvines #ancientvines #winescholarguild #sommelierlife #sommelier #oldvinehero #oldvineconference #oldvineregistry #historicvineyardsociety #oldvineproject #oldvinecharter
"Welcome to 2024, it's time to go to work" is how I end the Bottom Line column in the latest SOMM Journal, addressing restaurant wine management under the twin economic threats of recession and inflation. #sommelier #sommjournal #sommelierlife #sommelierselection #SommelierExperience #restaurantwine
Tomorrow (Saturday, January 27) is ZAP's big, yearly Grand Tasting in San Francisco. I'll be there, hope you will! On my personal page, re "Dear sommeliers: It's now okay to like Zinfandel," https://randycaparoso.blogspot.com/2024/01/dear-sommeliers-its-now-okay-to-like.html
#zinfandel #zinfandeladvocates #zinfandeladvocatesandproducers #oldvines #ownrooted #ancientvines #sommelier #sommelierlife #somm #ZAP
Good times, cont.: Once upon a time (in 1998), Agustin Huneeus managed to board a couple dozen of the country's top sommeliers on a long flight to Chile, where this one shot was taken (from left): Roger Dagorn MS, Josh Wesson, Rob Constantino (Sante), Larry Stone MS, moi and Raj Parr. #sommelier #sommelierlife #randycaparoso
Speaking of giants: My restaurant career offered many opportunities to walk and talk with industry legends; such as Robert and Margrit Mondavi, who always availed themselves on the most personal level. Extraordinary, even by the standards of our industry, replete with geniality. Photo from a 1998 wine dinner in Honolulu. #sommelierlife #randycaparoso
The message in my Bottom Line column in this month's SOMM Journal: Wine consumers are a lot smarter than what many of us in the wine trade think! #sommjournal #randycaparoso #winetrade #restaurantwine #restaurantindustry #sommelier #sommelierlife
#portugalwine #portugal #wine #vinho #winelover #instawine #redwine #vinhosdeportugal #winestagram #vino #vin #o #winesofportugal #portuguesewine #winetime #wineblog #sommlife #winetasting #wines #touriganacional #douro #daowines #vinhoverde #winelovers #sommelierlife #instavinho #dourovalley #colheita #vinhosempre #bhfyp
https://www.europanews20.com/2020/11/portugal-is-fourth-largest-wine.html
