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Erin Brooks moved from North Carolina to New Mexico in 2003 and graduated Cum Laude from the College of Santa Fe with a B.A. in Creative Writing and Politics. She has received awards for her poetry and creative nonfiction essays. Erin is currently the bar manager and sommelier at New Mexico’s only four-star, four-diamond restaurant. She has passed her Introductory Course and Exam for the Court of Master Sommeliers, achieved the Intermediate Certificate for the Wine and Spirit Education Trust and has completed the BarSmarts bartender education course. Erin dreams of traveling the world to continue learning and writing about wine and hopes to one day pass the Master of Wine examination. 

 

Erin Brooks Thinks:

A fair restaurant corkage fee is: 

$15-20

A tell-tale sign of a wine snob is: 

Drinking only French wine. Or smelling the cork (a different type of wine snobbery).

The wine region I most want to visit: 

France, Spain, Italy, Germany!

My "wish list" of wines I want to acquire soon: 

Wines that aren't so easy to get in New Mexico...Burgundy, older German Rieslings.

My biggest wine pet peeve: 

When someone refuses to drink anything other than French wine. There is so much great wine out there!

My favorite wine quote: 

"Wine is bottled poetry." -Robert Louis Stevenson
"Wine touches everything, ecology, archaeology, history. It's the great connector. It connects people." -Tim Gaiser, MS
"Wine is sunlight, held together by water." -Galileo

My dream wine to one day taste or own: 

Probably most of the wines from Decanter's "Wine Legends" back page!

The best wines I have ever tasted: 

Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande 1990
Sine qua non "I started to make a label..." 2007
Olivier Leflaive Chablis Vaudesir Grand Cru 2005

The people with whom I most often enjoy wine: 

Other sommeliers whom I study and blind taste with each week.

The last wine I had that I absolutely loved: 

I tasted a 1990 Château Lynch Bages recently that I really enjoyed. I love how French wine evolves in the glass!

What I think of the movie Sideways: 

I like how rumpled the main character is, poor thing.

My thoughts on the 100 point rating scale made famous by Robert Parker and emulated by seemingly everyone: 

Helpful and dangerous.

My wine travels have taken me to the following wine regions: 

I've only been to Japan, and tasted lots of sake...

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Chablis and Meursault: Foods to Pair and Meals that Call for Chablis and Meursault Burgundy, Chablis, Foods to Pair, Meursault, Wine Producers, Growers, & Labels, Wine Recommendations, Food & Wine Pairing 05/16/2012
Northern Rhône Syrah: Foods to Pair and Meals that Call for Northern Rhône Syrah France, Northern Rhone Syrah, Wine Producers, Growers, & Labels, Rhone (Rhône) 05/02/2012
Pinot Noir from Oregon's Willamette Valley: Foods to Pair With, and Meals that Call for, Willamette Valley Pinot David Lett, Joseph Drouhin, Pinot Noir, Pinot Noir, Willamette, Willamette Valley, Food & Wine Pairing, Oregon, United States 04/16/2012
Dry Creek Zinfandel: Foods to Pair with, and Meals that Call for, Dry Creek Zinfandel Dry Creek Zinfandel, Foods to Pair, Wine Producers, Growers, & Labels, Zinfandel, Zinfandel, Food & Wine Pairing 04/01/2012
Napa Valley Chardonnay: Foods to Pair With, and Meals that Call for, Napa Chardonnay Chardonnay, Chardonnay, lobster, Napa Valley, prawns, shellfish, shrimp, Wine Culture, Napa Valley, Wine Recommendations, Food & Wine Pairing, California 03/15/2012
Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon: Foods to Pair and Meals That Call for Napa Cabernet Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Sauvignon, Heitz Cellars, Napa Valley, Ridge Vineyards, Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, Napa Valley, Wine Recommendations, Food & Wine Pairing 03/02/2012

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