Common sense advisory from a career wine professional.
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If you can sell Syrah, you can sell anything (and vice versa)
Typically tiny berried, conical shaped cluster of Syrah on a harvest morning.
Although the following article, originally appearing in the April/May 2018 issue of The SOMM Journal, was about selling Syrah, it really is about selling any win...
Spicing things up
The Lava Cap estate, 2,400-2,700-ft. high in the El Dorado AVA.
The original text of my Bottom Line column published in the October/November 2026 issue of The SOMM Journal.
Even longtime wine professionals have always had a hard time pinp...
Does terroir matter anymore?
Lodi winemaker celebrating the sense of place in the taste of a Zinfandel in the old vine block in which it was grown.
The original text, with slight revisions, of a “Bottom Line” column published in the December 2023 issue of The SOMM Jou...
Judging a wine by its calcareous content (not its cover)
Pinot noir in Paso Robles originally planted in 1964, still producing one of the most delicate, silkiest wines in the state despite the region’s reputation as a “hot climate.”
Some food for thought never goes away, such as this revision of...
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My subject matters cross over so often in my three Substack pages—Culinary Approach to Wine In Restaurants, The Wine Clarion, and photography with feeling—I sometimes don’t know where to put them. Recently, I’ve ended up putting them in two...
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Author of Lodi! The Definitive Guide, proprietor of Randy Caparoso Photography, Editor-at Large for SOMM Journal, former editor of lodiwine.com. Prior to that, founding partner and corporate wine director of the Roy's family of restaurants.
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