It's still the economy stupid

The key to outdoing the competition in perilous times

Randy Caparoso's Culinary Approach to Wine In Restaurants

Why short wine lists and tiny inventories are finally catching on in the industry, and guests. Re https://randycaparoso.substack.com/p/are-short-wine-lists-truly-back-in

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Are short wine lists truly back in style?

Why short lists and tiny inventories are finally catching on in the industry, and guests

Randy Caparoso's Culinary Approach to Wine In Restaurants
In the current issue of SOMM Journal, my Bottom Line column on searching, and finding, alternative styles of Cabernet Sauvignon on Sonoma Mountain and in the Moon Mountain District.
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Judging a wine by its calcareous content, not its cover

From the annals of The Wandering Sommelier

Randy Caparoso's Culinary Approach to Wine In Restaurants
From the current issue of SOMM Journal, the question of whether or not restaurants and sommeliers should also get on the sustainable/organic/regenerative band wagon with the growing (granted, still a minority) number of consumers who care...
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Regenerative wine lists: Results that count

Why the time to promote responsibly grown wines in restaurants is now

Randy Caparoso's Culinary Approach to Wine In Restaurants
Bottom Line column in the current SOMM Journal, dispensing advice on utilizing selection and pricing to steer guests towards ideal wine and food experiences, hence promoting your restaurant and wine program.
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Today’s post (https://randycaparoso.substack.com/p/guile-and-guts): A restaurant wine program doesn’t promote itself. You have to show what your restaurant does best by putting your best wines forward, the same way that chefs put out dishes, going by the old adage that “tasting is believing.”
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Guile and guts

A wine program doesn't promote itself

Randy Caparoso's Culinary Approach to Wine In Restaurants
Today’s post (re https://randycaparoso.substack.com/p/the-mighty-minority) is on covering all bases in respect to guest demographics when managing restaurant wine programs.
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The Mighty Minority

Cultivating all demographics and tastes is the key to surviving 2025

Randy Caparoso's Culinary Approach to Wine In Restaurants
Phase 2, Culinary Approach to Wine In Restaurants

A little spiritual boogie

Randy Caparoso's Culinary Approach to Wine In Restaurants