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1.	SOMMELIER SPOTLIGHT David Ridgeway, La Tour d'Argent, Paris Bennett Voyles PAGE: 28 - June 2009 An Englishman holds the cellar key to one of France’s great wine treasures. In the heart of Paris, not far from Notre Dame, stands La Tour d’Argent (“The Silver Tower”), one of P
2.	ROUNDTABLE: Professional Wine Education Today David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 52 - March 15 2010 Leading educators discuss the state of wine certification and instruction programs around the country. Sommelier J
3.	ROUNDTABLE The Philosophy of Service David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 26 - February 2009 This article can be read in full by Sommelier Journal subscribers only. You can read some excerpts a href="http://www.sommelierjournal.com/files/archive/2009/02/26/excerpts.p
4.	The Wines of Moldova: Discovering velvet behind the Iron Curtain Jason Tesauro PAGE: 88 - November 30 2011 Twice, they slaughtered the spring lamb for us. A 9-year-old chess prodigy, son of a signer of his country’s Declaration of Independence, checkmated me in four moves. And then there was the
5.	FOR OPENERS Sommeliers’ intriguing choices David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - January 15 2012 Sommeliers’ choices indicate some intriguing industry trends. As if we needed any more proof that restaurant wine professionals are an independent lot, this issue offers our thi
6.	FOR OPENERS Try the Pinot Noir David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - November 30 2011 German winemakers are making up ground with their Pinot Noirs. I went on a wine trip to Germany and came away impressed by—the Pinot Noir? Sounds like a bad punch line or
7.	FOR OPENERS A culture of innovation David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - February 28 2012 A restaurant’s culture of innovation starts with the wine list. A "culture of innovation" is associated nowadays with high-tech companies like Google and Apple, but it’s a phra
8.	ROUNDTABLE The Wine List David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 68 - February 28 2012 Our panel of noted wine professionals considers the role of the list in making a restaurant successful. Top wine professionals from around the country dodged a winter snowstorm to
9.	FOR OPENERS Wine criticism after Parker David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - April 15 2012 Parker’s legacy is secure, but new approaches are changing the world of wine. Our coverage of the legacy of Robert Parker puts me in mind of Mark Antony’s oration in Shakespeare: "
10.	TASTING PANEL 2001 California Cabernet Sauvignons David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 28 - May 31 2012 A collection of top-end wines shows surprising freshness more than a decade out. A panel of wine experts from around the country gathered in February at Frasca Food and Wine in Boul
11.	FOR OPENERS Microbiology and terroir David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - May 31 2012 Recent research confirms that there is indeed a scientific basis to terroir. In an article for our last issue called "a title="http://www.sommelierjournal.com/articles/article.asp
12.	FOR OPENERS The locavore’s dilemma David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - July 15 2012 Drinking local may not be as simple as eating local. The Drink Local Wine movement is facilitating some noble and even necessary work, but its mission ultimately presents a dilemma f
13.	FOR OPENERS Memo to Vinho Verde David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - August 31 2012 Memo to Vinho Verde: Go with your strength. Vinho Verde has been ramping up its promotional efforts in recent years. That’s a good thing, because this northern Portuguese regio
14.	Nationwide Survey of Restaurant Economics Phil Vogels PAGE: 61 - August 31 2012 Sommelier Journal’s first formal study of U.S. restaurant economics is intended to provide a snapshot of how and what restaurant wine programs around the country are doing today
15.	FOR OPENERS Don't overlook Mendocino David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - October 15 2012 Don’t overlook Mendocino when seeking food-friendly wines from California. Mendocino’s winegrowers don’t appear to mind their hippie reputation—at least, that was our impressio
16.	FOR OPENERS Jacks of all trades David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 4 - November 30 2012 Today's sommelier has to be a jack of all trades—but service is still paramount. This issue's "a mce_href="/articles/article.aspx?year=2012&month=11&articlenum=81" hr
17.	WINERY SPOTLIGHT Ken Wright Cellars, Carlton, Oregon David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 50 - September 15 2010 For Ken Wright, winemaking is a deep relationship with the land. An interview with Ken Wright quickly turns into a geology lesson, complete with whiteboard drawings and soil samples.
18.	FOR OPENERS Put your wine list to work David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - September 15 2010 A little engineering can put your wine list to work generating more profit. We expend a lot of verbiage in this journal describing how a wine list should complement your restaurant’s
19.	TASTING PANEL Rioja Reservas and Gran Reservas David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 22 - July 31 2010 The reservas were stylish, but the gran reservas were stunning. Considering the affordable prices of the 19 Riojas judged by our eight-member panel, this may have been the best
20.	FOR OPENERS When local becomes global David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - October 31 2010 When local becomes global, sommeliers help establish a cultural esthetic. I can’t resist discussing a clever coinage by Contributing Editor Randy Caparoso, from his a href="htt
21.	FOR OPENERS Friuli’s strength is Sauvignon David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - December 15 2010 A marketing suggestion for Friulian winemakers: play to your strength. The Friulians may not be the greatest wine marketers, but they sure know where to take a visitor for maxim
22.	FOR OPENERS Sonoma's identity problem David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - January 31 2011 Sommeliers need to get a handle on the Sonoma Coast. If Sonoma used to be portrayed as the Haut-Médoc to Napa’s Médoc, perhaps we now have good reason to view it as the Burgundy
23.	TASTING PANEL Australian Chardonnays David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 28 - March 15 2011 A tasting of recent cool-climate releases yields both hits and misses. A January master class presented by Wine Australia in Hollywood, Calif., gave span style="font-style: it
24.	WINERY SPOTLIGHT Leeuwin Estate, Margaret River, Australia David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 44 - March 15 2011 Australia’s most decorated Chardonnay comes from a onetime cattle ranch on the Indian Ocean coast. The late Robert Mondavi influenced countless vintners during his long life in t
25.	FOR OPENERS The philosophy of pairing David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - March 15 2011 Why does this go with that? It’s a topic that’s more philosophy than science. I opened our annual Roundtable discussion for this special issue by asking a question: Why would we
26.	ROUNDTABLE: Pairing Food and Wine David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 68 - March 15 2011 Four top pros discuss the symbiosis that can happen at the table. For Sommelier Journal’s annual Special Issue Roundtable, we
27.	FOR OPENERS What are we testing for? David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - April 30 2011 What tasting skills should be tested in sommelier exams? Since one of the functions of this column is to stimulate discussion within the profession, I’d like to start our current iss
28.	TASTING PANEL Sonoma Coast Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 20 - June 15 2011 The panel appraises cool-climate California wines. As a preface to Sommelier Journal’s third annual Terroir Experience, we gathered five expert tasters to evaluate some
29.	FOR OPENERS What do your guests want? David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - June 15 2011 What do your guests really want? Our survey provides some answers. Well, what do you know? Restaurant guests really do respond to those details of service we’ve all been talking
30.	Sommelier Journal’s Nationwide Consumer Survey Part 1: Attitudes Toward Restaurant Wine Programs Phil Vogels PAGE: 64 - June 15 2011 Sommelier Journal’s first examination of consumer attitudes reveals that restaurant wine programs around the country have some work to do if they are to satisfy their guests. Particul
31.	Sommelier Journal’s Nationwide Consumer Survey Part 2: Identifying and Selling to Consumer Subgroups Phil Vogels PAGE: 72 - June 15 2011 In Part 1 of our report on Sommelie
32.	FOR OPENERS Marketing to Millennials David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - July 31 2011 What are we to make of these precocious Millennials? Of course, I’m referring to that quarter of the U.S. population born between 1981 and 1999. As a group, they seem to pop up
33.	WINERY SPOTLIGHT Edi Simcic, Goriška Brda, Slovenia David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 48 - October 15 2011 These Slovenian wines have crossed the border between regional specialty and international attraction. Not so long ago, there was an international boundary between the Italian wi
34.	FOR OPENERS We’ll always have Burgundy David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - October 15 2011 No matter what the rest of the world does, we’ll always have Burgundy. Standing on the 1,600-foot summit of the majestic hill of Corton above the village of Pernand-Vergelesses,
35.	FOR OPENERS Service can be a sacred duty David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 4 - February 2009 Whether you’re a deacon or a sommelier, service should be a sacred duty. When I played the organ at a church in Boulder, Colo., in the late 1980s and early ’90s, my most appreci
36.	TERROIR Kaefferkopf Grand Cru, Alsace, France David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 30 - March 2009 The wine world generally thinks of a grand cru vineyard as a contiguous piece of land with a consistent soil type, on which a particular variety or family of grapes is grown. Alsace’s newes
37.	FOR OPENERS Pedro for President David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 4 - March 2009 Pedro for President? The grape, at least, gets my vote in the pairing competition. Google “Pedro for President,” and you’ll see a bunch of citations and souvenirs related to the
38.	INTERVIEW Olivier Humbrecht, Domaine Zind-Humbrecht, Alsac, France David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 24 - January 2009 Visit Domaine Zind-Humbrecht for a tasting with Olivier Humbrecht, MW, and you may end up getting a two-hour course in viticulture and viniculture—as my wife, Cindy, and I experienced on ou
39.	FOR OPENERS Specialize or Diversify? David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 4 - January 2009 Specialization or diversification? That’s the eternal question in global wine positioning. Global positioning is not just a little device you stick on your windshield to keep yo
40.	FOR OPENERS A model sommelier association David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - December 2008 Texas offers a road map for starting your own regional sommelier association. We at Sommelier Journal try not to play favorites among the often-collegial, sometimes-competitive
41.	RESTAURANT SPOTLIGHT Vetri Ristorante, Philadelphia David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 22 - February 2009 Service at Vetri Ristorante is summed up by chef Marc Vetri, in his autobiographical cookbook, in terms that could be used to describe the perfect Italian trattoria: “a great meal shared wi
42.	TASTING PANEL 1998 and 2004 Châteauneuf-du-Papes David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 20 - October 2008 Pedigree stood out in Sommelier Journal’s recent tasting of 1998 and 2004 red blends from Châteauneuf-du-Pape, held at Spago Beverly Hills, Calif. The panelists were the Spago wi
43.	FOR OPENERS Everybody loves Riesling David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 6 - October 2008 Riesling is a favorite of sommeliers, but the best examples are still underappreciated by consumers. When you publish a monthly magazine, even when you try to maintain a wide va
44.	FOR OPENERS Less may lead to more David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 5 - November 2008 Can you really make more money by charging less? When I eat at a restaurant, which I do about three times a week, I’m almost always there as a typical diner rather than a wine w
45.	RESTAURANT SPOTLIGHT Santacafé, Santa Fe, New Mexico David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 26 - December 2008 Santa Fe is both the territorial and cultural capital of New Mexico. With attractions such as the Santa Fe Opera and Chamber Music Festival and the annual Indian and Spanish mark
46.	TERROIR Doctor’s Vineyard, Santa Lucia Highlands, California David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 40 - December 2008 Enter the Santa Lucia Highlands from the east, turning off U.S. Highway 101, and you find yourself wondering how anyone could produce fine wines anywhere in the vicinity. You dri
47.	TASTING PANEL 1994 California Cabernet David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 26 - Preview Issue 2007 SJ’s inaugural tasting panel was charged with judging the current condition of selected 1994 California Cabernet Sauvignons and Cabernet-based blends.This tasting was a neighbo
48.	INTERVIEW Paul Draper, Ridge Vineyards, California David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 30 - Preview Issue 2007 Monte Bello Ridge occupies one of the highest peaks in the Santa Cruz Mountains, about a 45-minute drive down the coast from San Francisco.To reach Monte Bello, you wend your way t
49.	TERROIR Vega Sicilia, Ribera del Duero, Spain David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 36 - Preview Issue 2007 There must be something about the Ribera del Duero terroir that makes Vega Sicilia the standard-bearer for Spanish wines.On a high, wind-blown plateau in north-central
50.	RESTAURANT SPOTLIGHT Frasca Food and Wine, Boulder, Colorado David Vogels, CWP PAGE: 44 - Preview Issue 2007 “I’m addicted to service,” says Bobby Stuckey, co-owner and wine director of Frasca Food and Wine.That statement sums up the philosophy of his restaurant as well as any marketi
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SOMMELIER SPOTLIGHT David Ridgeway, La Tour d'Argent, Paris

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ROUNDTABLE: Professional Wine Education Today

3.

ROUNDTABLE The Philosophy of Service

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The Wines of Moldova: Discovering velvet behind the Iron Curtain

5.

FOR OPENERS Sommeliers’ intriguing choices

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FOR OPENERS Try the Pinot Noir

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FOR OPENERS A culture of innovation

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ROUNDTABLE The Wine List

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FOR OPENERS Wine criticism after Parker

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TASTING PANEL 2001 California Cabernet Sauvignons

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FOR OPENERS Microbiology and terroir

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FOR OPENERS The locavore’s dilemma

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FOR OPENERS Memo to Vinho Verde

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Nationwide Survey of Restaurant Economics

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FOR OPENERS Don't overlook Mendocino

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FOR OPENERS Jacks of all trades

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WINERY SPOTLIGHT Ken Wright Cellars, Carlton, Oregon

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FOR OPENERS Put your wine list to work

19.

TASTING PANEL Rioja Reservas and Gran Reservas

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FOR OPENERS When local becomes global

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FOR OPENERS Friuli’s strength is Sauvignon

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FOR OPENERS Sonoma's identity problem

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TASTING PANEL Australian Chardonnays

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WINERY SPOTLIGHT Leeuwin Estate, Margaret River, Australia

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FOR OPENERS The philosophy of pairing

26.

ROUNDTABLE: Pairing Food and Wine

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FOR OPENERS What are we testing for?

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TASTING PANEL Sonoma Coast Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs

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FOR OPENERS What do your guests want?

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Sommelier Journal’s Nationwide Consumer Survey Part 1: Attitudes Toward Restaurant Wine Programs

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Sommelier Journal’s Nationwide Consumer Survey Part 2: Identifying and Selling to Consumer Subgroups

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FOR OPENERS Marketing to Millennials

33.

WINERY SPOTLIGHT Edi Simcic, Goriška Brda, Slovenia

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FOR OPENERS We’ll always have Burgundy

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FOR OPENERS Service can be a sacred duty

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TERROIR Kaefferkopf Grand Cru, Alsace, France

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FOR OPENERS Pedro for President

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INTERVIEW Olivier Humbrecht, Domaine Zind-Humbrecht, Alsac, France

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