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Randy Caparoso

Randy Caparoso is a career wine professional, wine journalist and photographer living in Lodi, California. He is author of Lodi! The Definitive Guide and History of America’s Largest Winegrowing Region (2022), and Editor-at-Large/Bottom Line columnist for The SOMM Journal (2008-present). Between 2010 and 2025, he composed online blogs and social media posts for the Lodi Winegrape Commission (lodiwine.com).

Caparoso is a member of the UK-based Circle of Wine Writers. In 2024 he was recognized by the UK’s The Old Vine Conference as an “Old Vine Hero” in the field of communications through both his writing and photography. Also in 2024, Caparoso was named a WineBusiness Monthly “Wine Industry Leader.”

Before embarking on a career as a full-time wine journalist and photographer, Caparoso was a career restaurateur, taking his first job as a sommelier in 1978 (Cavalier Restaurant, Honolulu). He is best known as a founding partner of the Roy’s family of restaurants, serving as the group's Vice President and Corporate Wine Director during its first 13 years, between 1988 and 2001. While with Roy’s, he was named Santé’s first “Wine & Spirits Professional of the Year” (1988) and Restaurant Wine’s “Wine Marketer of the Year” (1992 and 1998). He was deeply involved in the opening and operations of 28 Roy’s locations across the country, from Hawaii to New York.

Caparoso has also owned and operated his own wine production company, Caparoso Wines LLC, founded in 2001 and active until 2006. Caparoso Wines bottlings were distributed in as many as 12 states.

During his restaurant career, Caparoso also bylined a long-running biweekly wine column for his hometown newspaper The Honolulu Advertiser (1981 to 2002).

In recent years, Caparoso has also become known for his wine country photography, chronicled on randycaparosophotography.com.

A compilation of over 1,600 published articles composed by Caparoso since the early 2000s can be found on authory.com/RandyCaparoso.

Since 2021 Caparoso has been contributing OpEd columns for the Wine Industry Network Advisor (wineindustryadvisor.com).

He is very active on Substack, generating three different pages: The Wine Clarion (caparoso.substack.com), Culinary Approach to Wine In Restaurants (randycaparoso.substack.com), and photography with feeling (rcaparoso.substack.com).

In the Meta universe, Caparoso’s two Instagram handles are randycaparoso.wineauthor and randycaparoso.photography. On Facebook, he is active as randycaparoso.wineauthor, while his photography is highlighted on Randy Caparoso Photography Storefront.

For business-related updates, visit his LinkedIn page at https://www.linkedin.com/in/randy-caparoso.

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