Bear Dalton
BEAR DALTON is
Spec’s fine wine buyer and My Table magazine’s wine and spirits
editor. He teaches wine-appreciation classes for Rice University’s
School of Continuing Studies, the Alliance Francaise and other
organizations.
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Denman Moody
By
day he's a high-powered financial advisor and estate manager. In the
after-hours he's a free-lance wine writer, an organizer of charity wine
auctions, and a wine consultant to some of the wealthiest residents of
Houston.
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 Martin
Korson
Central Market's Wine
Manager and former Brennan's resident Sommelier is known for
his willingness to share his knowledge of wines with fellow
Houstonians. The "Wine Guy" is pictured here conducting a
wine class for the Houston Chapter of the Wine Brats.
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Melba Allen-Mauviel
A native Houstonian who has
been living in France for the past 12 years, Melba Allen-Mauviel earned
her Diploma of Sommelier Conseil from the Université du Vin of
Suze-la-Rousse in the Rhône Valley. She is now the Director of the new
Wine Institute at the Culinary Institute Alain & Marie LeNôtre in Houston.
Melba is also the only American member of the Union des Sommeliers de
France.
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Lenoir Josey
Considered one of the most knowledgeable
and accomplished oenophiles in the world, this Houston oilman's collection
of rare and fine wines was declared by Michael Broadbent of Christie's as
being "the finest and rarest anywhere."
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