Benjamin Spencer is owner/winemaker of Leojami , a family-run micro-winery in Carmel, California. He is a Diploma Candidate with the Wine & Spirit Education Trust and a Candidate for Certification with the Court of Master Sommeliers. He writes a beverage industry blog at TheDRINK.tumblr.com .
Benjamin Spencer Thinks:
A fair restaurant corkage fee is:
A tell-tale sign of a wine snob is:
Someone who is more serious than the wine they are drinking.
The wine region I most want to visit:
Alsace, in northeastern France, and the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer region in Germany, and the Pfalz ... this list could go on and on ... a better question might be which region do I not want to visit ...
My "wish list" of wines I want to acquire soon:
2004 Juris St. Laurent, Burgenland
My biggest wine pet peeve:
I don't have any pet peeves when it comes to wine.
My favorite wine quote:
Wine is earth's answer to the sun - Margaret Fuller
My dream wine to one day taste or own:
One of each of the Bordeaux First Growth reds from 1982
The best wines I have ever tasted:
2004 Grand Cru Bonnes Mares, 2000 Domaine Leflaive Puligny Montrachet
The people with whom I most often enjoy wine:
My wife is my favorite tasting partner.
The last wine I had that I absolutely loved:
2005 Albak, Ribera del Jucar, Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
What I think of the movie Sideways:
A good movie, left out a lot about the wine business, but that wasn't the point of the story. The point of the story was the friendship and the shift in character between Miles and Jack.
My thoughts on the 100 point rating scale made famous by Robert Parker and emulated by seemingly everyone:
I think this is an important scale, but one that is subjective. Every palate is different.
My wine travels have taken me to the following wine regions:
California, Texas, Oregon, New York, France, Italy, Sicily, Greece, Crete
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