I’m a writer living in Eugene, Oregon.
I wrote the Wine in Common column in the Nashville Scene from 2015–2018.
I’m a UCLA football alum and cancer survivor, and my essay about cancer and Kansas City Chiefs safety Eric Berry was published in the Kansas City Star. I’ve written a few things for Somm Journal, I was a 2017 fellow at the Symposium for Professional Wine Writers at Meadowood Napa Valley, and I received the Frank & Pardis Stitt Fellowship (for writing in the culinary arts) at Rivendell Writers’ Colony in Sewanee, Tenn.
I have an M.F.A. in nonfiction from Oregon State University, where I studied under Elena Passarello and Justin St. Germain, and I work as a writer in the wine business. You can write me at P.O. Box 5264, Eugene, OR, 97405, email me at contact@peteholland.com, or even call me at my desk if you like: (541) 844-1808.
Below are links to my column Wine in Common, which ran in the Nashville Scene from 2015-2018, plus other things.
Here are some of my favorites:
On Anthony Bourdain. The Nashville Scene. June 28, 2018.
On Jim Ridley, the man who made me a professional writer (you gotta scroll way down to read my couple paragraphs, but you should read what everyone else, including Adam Ross and Margaret Renkl, wrote about Jim). The Nashville Scene. April 14, 2016.
On choosing a name for my wine column. The Nashville Scene. February 18, 2016.
On Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon Vineyard. The Nashville Scene. June 15, 2017.
On winemaker Scott Palazzo and high-scoring wines. The Nashville Scene. October 20, 2016.
On Chiefs safety Eric Berry's return from cancer. The Kansas City Star. August 9, 2015.
On the wines of Big Little Lies. The Nashville Scene. April 27, 2017.
Don’t get me wrong, these are good too:
On Napa. The Nashville Scene. August 30, 2018.
On that Sarah Huckabee Sanders restaurant thing. The Nashville Scene. July 19, 2018.
On Oregon’s Willamette Valley. The Nashville Scene. March 29, 2018.
On Ridge’s Monte Bello vineyard. The Nashville Scene. January 11, 2018.
On preserving open wines. The Nashville Scene. August 17, 2017.
On being hung over, basically. The Nashville Scene. July 20, 2017.
On Chianti and Tuscany. The Somm Journal (page. 70). June/July 2017.
On chenin blanc. The Nashville Scene. May 18, 2017.
On sommeliers. The Nashville Scene. March 16, 2017.
On Valentine's wines. The Nashville Scene. February 9, 2017.
On wine importer Neal Rosenthal's excellent book Reflections of a Wine Merchant. The Nashville Scene. January 19, 2017.
On December wines. The Nashville Scene. December 15, 2016.
On the Rhône. The Nashville Scene. November 17, 2016.
Read this if you want to want a sandwich right now. The Nashville Scene. October 27, 2016.
On Nashville restaurants that do wine deals. The Nashville Scene. September 22, 2016.
On wines available at Nashville Costco stores, seriously. The Nashville Scene. August 18, 2016.
On wines that Nashville grocery stores just don't carry. The Nashville Scene. July 21, 2016.
On riesling. The Nashville Scene. June 23, 2016.
On rosé. The Nashville Scene. May 26, 2016.
On wines in boxes, cans, and other non-bottle vessels. The Nashville Scene. April 21, 2016.
On cabernet franc. The Nashville Scene. March 17, 2016.
On the wine gear you need, and a little on the gear you don't. The Nashville Scene. January 7, 2016.
On champagne and other bubblies. The Nashville Scene. November 25, 2015.
On oak in wine. The Nashville Scene. November 12, 2015.
On wine terminology. The Nashville Scene. October 8, 2015.
On fall wines. The Nashville Scene. September 10, 2015.
On atheism and the Nashville mayoral contest. The Nashville Scene. August 27, 2015.