Six Reasons Why I’m Not a Sommelier

Six Reasons Why I’m Not a Sommelier

I was having dinner with some friends recently and talk turned to sommelier training. This is a fairly common occurrence in my life, since I’m surrounded by people who either work in wine or are wine nerds like me. And having this blog means that a lot of people just...
Wine Quizzes Make Me Crazy

Wine Quizzes Make Me Crazy

Recently, one of my lovely friends in wine tagged me in a Facebook post with a link to one of those Decanter wine tests. For those not familiar, Decanter posts these regular quizzes so you can test your wine knowledge. For many of my friends who work in wine, these...

Wine School Reconsideration

I recently completed Wines 2 at George Brown. I passed, but it definitely wasn’t as easy as I had hoped. Not that I didn’t love it – I very much did – but my newbie-ness was on full display. I’m still pretty awful at blind tastings, though I’m getting better...

Wine School Update

  So, I spent my weekend doing a little light reading…   Apologies for the lack of updates recently – it seems that while wine is my major writing inspiration, it’s also the cause of my lack of time to blog! It turns out that Wines II is about ten...