User:RRCaparoso
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Randy Caparoso is a full-time wine journalist/photographer who has lived in Lodi since 2010. In a prior incarnation, he was a multi-award-winning restaurateur, starting as a sommelier in Honolulu (1978 through 1988) and then as founding partner/vice president/corporate wine director of the James Beard Award-winning Roy’s family of restaurants (1988-2001), which opened 28 locations from Hawaii to New York. While with Roy’s, he was named Santé’s first Wine & Spirits Professional of the Year (1998) and Restaurant Wine’s Wine Marketer of the Year (1992 and 1998). Between 2001 and 2006, he operated his own Caparoso Wines label as a wine producer. For over 20 years—1981 to 2002—he bylined a biweekly wine column for his hometown newspaper, The Honolulu Advertiser. He currently puts bread (and wine) on the table as editor-at-large and the Bottom Line columnist for The SOMM Journal (founded in 2007 as Sommelier Journal), when not attending to his Lodi activities as a freelance blogger and social media director for Lodi Winegrape Commission.
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