Pilsner Sommelier Wine 
Imbibe Magazine
JUNE 9, 2025
In 2018, he partnered with sommelier Josh Mazanowski to open Beholder, which has since seen multiple James Beard Award nominations for both its food and the wine program. The menu is always full of fantastic options and the wine list is amazing.” Left to right: Sommelier Josh Mazanowski at Beholder.
VinePair
JUNE 17, 2025
The average wine drinker’s buying habits are predominantly influenced by the media, large national trends, and what their friends are drinking. Meanwhile, sommeliers tend to build their wine lists based on recommendations from other somms and the bottles that brand reps might be pushing during any given month. The usual result?
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Imbibe Magazine
APRIL 16, 2024
La Ruina’s cocktail menu highlights ‘revitalized’ staple cocktails made with specialty tequila, rum, wine, and mezcal.” The restaurant’s bar and accompanying wine cellar offer equally impressive programs. Adjacent to the dining room, The Cellar holds more than 1,200 wines from around the world,” says Galicia.
VinePair
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
We dont say this as a braggadocious claim of influence, but rather to point out that the grape variety remains widely popular despite many winemakers efforts to push esoteric wines on their customers. The impulse to promote lesser-known juice isnt unique to the wine industry, but producers embracing and acting upon that impulse certainly is.
VinePair
JULY 3, 2024
Push that macro-lager aside, it’s time to make room in the cooler for canned wines. Though beer, hard seltzer, and cocktails traditionally rule the canned drinks space, there’s a rising number of exceptional wines hitting shelves in this format. Similar to boxed wines , canned wines haven’t always had the best reputation.
VinePair
JULY 10, 2024
An IPA is easier to pull off than a classic pilsner. A beer sommelier with a certificate from the Doemens Academy in Munich, Roland Graber is a co-owner of Riot Act Brewing and the craft beer bar On Tap in Bern, Switzerland. I’m a beer sommelier, and sensorially well educated and experienced. They were clean.
Today's Bartender
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Punch Punch is a James Beard Award-winning online magazine that writes about wine, spirits, beer, and cocktails. One of their goals is to remove the elitism often associated with the beverage industry (wine in particular) by writing articles on these topics that can be easily understood by anyone. Well, I’m sorry.
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