You read the prequel in Tête de Bulle…
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Interview by Lyn M. Archer
Today TdB catches up with wine journalist and photographer Randy Caparoso. (This interview has been edited for length and clarity.)
LMA: What are your Substack sites?
RC: The Wine Clarion, Randy Caparoso’s Culinary Approach to Wine In Restaurants , and photography with feeling
LMA: What was your impetus for starting them?
RC: I started with the Culinary Approach to Wine In Restaurants in early 2024 specifically as a way of posting chapters of a prospective book of the same name.
The explanation is that I couldn’t get the copy editor of my previous book (”Lodi!”) to take on this project, and so I asked close friends to go over my chapters, posted one by one on Substack to point out any errors or suggestions.
For the most part, this has worked, and the book is now in “how-do-I-get-this-printed?” stage. Since I started working on a restaurant focused wine book over 20 years ago, I am not in the biggest hurry, but it reflects 28 years of what I believe to have been a successful, multi-award winning restaurant career, specializing mostly on wine.
While all the chapters of the book have since been posted, I am still utilizing the “Culinary Approach” Substack page to post articles that have previously been published in print versions of The SOMM Journal, for which I am the “Bottom Line” columnist, and frequent contributor as Editor-at-Large.
The purpose of the page, in other words, remains to address the trade in the restaurant and hospitality industries.
Other Sites
Looking for a place to post on many of the generalized wine topics I write about, I started The Wine Clarion in spring of 2025 to serve that purpose.
I regularly contribute OpEds, for instance, to Wine Industry Advisor, and I am currently running an in-depth, 4-part series of oak barrels. This page is a good place to get these generalized thoughts and information accumulated on wine (and the wine industry) aired out in the winosphere.
My third site, photography with feeling, is all about my approach to photography, connected to my side business, Randy Caparoso Photography.
Although most of it is wine-related, it’s a totally different perspective than the other two wine-related pages. READ MORE HERE.