Restaurants in Alaska

I was fortunate enough to sit down with 24 of the area’s most respected palates for a comparative blind tasting of 6 different wines.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term blind tasting, it is a series of wines tasted by a panel with minimal, if any information about the wines given [...]

I’ll start our adventure into the wine world with my preface about critics and their published reviews.  There are thousands of wineries and producers with a multitude of varietals and blends produced.  To further complicate matters, they produce them vintage after vintage.  How, as consumers, are we supposed to decide on which ones to pursue, [...]

Here we go. Welcome to the journal of my adventures in wine, cuisine, and the world of the restaurant industry.  I intend to share the wines that I sample, my opinions on them, where I buy them, where I drink them, and the good food that goes along with them.  As a wine professional my opinions are [...]