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An Injustice!

The Court Needs to Adapt or Die

In the modern era, wine education and certification are tied to systems and cultures of white supremacy, gatekeeping, and patriarchy

Oct 31, 2020

The Court Needs to Adapt or Die

Oct 31, 2020

How to dismantle white supremacy in wine

A how-to guide on how you and everyone else around you in the wine industry can change it for the better, one action at a time

Jun 25, 2020

How to dismantle white supremacy in wine

Jun 25, 2020

Actionable Items for the Wine Community

We are in an extraordinary position to talk about the systemic changes necessary in order for the future and survival of sommeliership and…

Jun 9, 2020

Actionable Items for the Wine Community

Jun 9, 2020

Your Not Liking Orange Wine Sounds Like a “You” Problem

Troy, Troy, Troy: this sounds like a case of what we youngs say is “yucking someone’s yum.” It’s a bad, selfish take. The overarching…

Sep 8, 2019

Your Not Liking Orange Wine Sounds Like a “You” Problem

Sep 8, 2019

the only one in the room

I was most recently at a wine conference where I was a panelist, and among the group of sommeliers they’d selected, the only one who was a…

Aug 2, 2019

the only one in the room

Aug 2, 2019

closing to open

Tamà is closed. In the version of what it was most currently, it won’t come back. Sad to say it, truly. But there’s hope for us yet.

Jan 8, 2019

closing to open

Jan 8, 2019

speaking in tongues

I’ve really only felt alienated by language when I have to resort to pointing at pictures on a menu, or more often than not, a number…

May 25, 2016

May 25, 2016

Miguel de Leon

Miguel de Leon

restaurant operator, wine director, sommelier. cal 05, nyc since 07. MNL -> LAX -> SFO -> NYC. //\\//\\ ig @migueld1 tw @migueld // he/him

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