RandyCaparoso.wineauthorAug 18, 2025

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

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Sonoma's refreshingly brazen, alternative styles of Cabernet Sauvignon

Poster kids for "un-Napa" styles are out there, hiding in plain sight

Randy Caparoso's Culinary Approach to Wine In Restaurants
RandyCaparoso.wineauthorAug 4, 2025

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.

#foodandwine #foodandbeverageindustry #foodandbeveragemanagement #RestaurantIndustry #HospitalityManagement #sommelierlife #winelist #charlietrotter #roysrestaurant

How Charlie Trotter’s audacity transformed the sommelier world

Culinary waves that shaped the way we sell wine today

Randy Caparoso's Culinary Approach to Wine In Restaurants
RandyCaparoso.wineauthorMar 7, 2025
Magazine portrait of young Honolulu sommelier, 1987, nine years into full-time wine career.
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CustardFistNov 16, 2024

‘𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙀 𝙏𝘼𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂’ 🍷

More dumb comics on https://custardfist.com 🙂

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The hell with power naps to become more productive. How about taking power wakes to get more sleep while remaining functional. 😎

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RandyCaparoso.wineauthorAug 20, 2024
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
Can narrowly focused wine lists win acclaim?

From the chapter: Nuts and bolts

Randy Caparoso's Culinary Approach to Wine In Restaurants
RandyCaparoso.wineauthorJul 12, 2024
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
Friend or Foe: On Working With—and Sometimes Working Around—Distributors - The Somm Journal

by Randy Caparoso During my 25 or so years as an on-premise wine buyer, I had distributor and supplier colleagues who were my best friends—or my worst enemies. An enemy, […]

The Somm Journal
RandyCaparoso.wineauthorJun 21, 2024
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
Six universal rules of thumb

From the chapter: Nuts and bolts

Randy Caparoso's Restaurant Wine Management
RandyCaparoso.wineauthorJun 14, 2024
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
The science⏤and basic principles⏤of wine and food matching

From the chapter: Culinary matters

Randy Caparoso's Restaurant Wine Management
RandyCaparoso.wineauthorApr 29, 2024
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
Why appreciation of old vines is challenging yet more important than ever

WSG is proud be the first Educational Partner of The Old Vine Conference. Read more to find out how this dynamic non-profit organization is actively...

Wine Scholar Guild
RandyCaparoso.wineauthorFeb 6, 2024
"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