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  Inside The Glass: Lindsay Thomas

  August 21 at 4 a.m.

  Correction and clarification:  Several changes have been made to this story since it originally appeared. The Houston Press apologizes for all errors and misunderstandings in its original account. Lindsay Thomas was at a lunch presented by a Napa Valley winery when Matt Stamp, a master sommelier leading the wine tour,...

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  Inside The Glass: Alex Abreu

  August 15 at 4 a.m.

  With the majority of his family already entrenched in the restaurant industry, all it took was a mention from his cousin Leo to pull Alex Abreu up into the club. The now 28-year-old general manager of the Upper Kirby location of CRÚ Food & Wine Bar, remembers his first job...

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  Inside The Glass: Julie Dalton

  August 8 at 4 a.m.

  One hundred and fifteen pages of wine containing 3,500 labels is what Julie Dalton, an Advanced Sommelier who’s two thirds finished with her master’s certification, is working with at Mastro’s Steakhouse. To store the $3.5 million dollar catalog known as The Cellar of the Post Oak Hotel property, wine is...

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  Inside The Glass: Charlotte Marshall

  August 1 at 4 a.m.

  "From sparkling to dessert — and then by producer — and then the client was good with me organizing their Burgundy north to south," Charlotte Marshall thought to herself.

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  Inside the Glass: Riccardo Guerrieri

  July 25 at 4 a.m.

  Sagrantino washes the mouth like a sea in mid-gale, ocean furious with fruit, sucking the palate dry only to bob back to the surface with a bite or two of musky, Umbrian salumi. This is the wine Riccardo Guerrieri grew up on. Six years ago after moving to Houston from...

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  Inside The Glass: Mohammed Rahman

  July 18 at 4 a.m.

  Working as a server at Chili’s and then Rio Ranch Restaurant while completing his undergrad degree in Kinesiology at the University of Houston, Mohammed Rahman, known as Mo, decided enough was enough, no more restaurants for him. But a year later his friend, Phouc Nguyen, then general manager for Azuma...