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Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For February 8, 2016 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
January 2016 Wine Product Roundup (A Bit Late?) | Mark As Read |
Ok, so I am a weeeeeee bit late on the wine product round-up for January 2016 (I blame travel, and drinking, both of which constitute "work" in my bizarre-but-fantastic life). This month, I've got only one product to feature; a small one, with a relatively big price, and even bigger aspirations: Vagnbys Wine Decantiere ($44). […] Grab The 1W...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For February 1, 2016 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
Yeah, I Am Gonna Eat That (Dispatch From Sicily With Zonin 1821?s Gastronomy Experience) | Mark As Read |
Last year, I did a sort of double-dip on the Italian wine community. I traveled on a media tour to Asti in the north (to eat fried cow brain and other fantastically odd delicacies, while getting immersed in all things Ruchè). And, since I was in Italy anyway, I was taken on another media tour […] Grab The 1WineDude.com Tasting Guide and star...
Why Is It Always Someone Else?s Fault? (Thoughts On Slipping Wine Sales) | Mark As Read |
One of the staples of my recent speaking gigs to wine marketing types has been that wine, having achieved extraordinary success in the USA in recent years, are now a big target. A small example: During a speaking gig at Taste Washington, I remember seeing the beer brand stands at the event and laughing to […] Grab The 1WineDude.com Tasting G...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For January 25, 2016 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
Furmint Adventures Episode 13: Holdvölgy Winery | Mark As Read |
We've got a brand new episode in my ongoing Furmint Adventures series, this time exploring the modern-take-on-tradition that is Holdvölgy Winery. That modern take on well-proven styles isn't just part of the winemaking; it's literally built into the winery operation itself, as you'll clearly see from the video that the FurmintUSA folks have expertl...
Wine Blogging Is Dead! Again! Long Live Wine Blogging! | Mark As Read |
Tom Wark recently asked me to chime in for an article he was considering for his blog, on the topic of whether or not interest in wine blogs was waning. I offered my views, some of which are quoted in his thoughtfully-considered piece. As to whether or not I agree with Tom that wine blogging […] Grab The 1WineDude.com Tasting Guide and start...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For January 18, 2016 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
Face The Faces Of Ruche (At Palate Press) | Mark As Read |
Just in case you're not quite totally sick of me yet, my latest feature for Palate Press was recently published, with the focus (words and photos) on the unsung red grape variety of Piedmont: Ruchè (I traveled the area last year as a media guest). Actually, it's more correct to state that my article (one […] Grab The 1WineDude.com Tasting Gu...
Chilling Out, In Out-There Places (Fix.com Cool Climate Wines) | Mark As Read |
Last week, my latest for Fix.com was published, entitled Wines at Chilly Extremes. Just in time for Winter, which in my neck of the woods has been mild enough in general to make me want to instantly slap global warning deniers. The article is an alternate take on the "cool climate wines" theme, in which […] Grab The 1WineDude.com Tasting Gui...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For January 11, 2016 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
The Most Interesting Wines Of 2015 | Mark As Read |
Here we go again! It's time for the 2015 edition of the Most Interesting Wines of the Year. Yeah, it's late, but given that this list is an indulgent exercise in subjective arbitrariness (or is that arbitrary subjectivity?), who cares? A few teasers: the 2015 MIW list includes four dessert wines, is heavily dominated by […] Grab The 1WineDud...
Furmint Spotlight Series 1: Introducing FurmintUSA | Mark As Read |
During the second round of my Furmint Adventures travels, I had the pleasure of dining at Barta Pince, which some of you might recall have been involved in salvaging the historic Öreg Király Vineyard in Tokaj. During dinner, our traveling group had a bit of an impromptu video recording session with one of the leaders […] Grab The 1WineDude.c...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For January 4, 2016 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
?Life Goes On, Man? (The Most Popular 1WD Articles Of 2015) | Mark As Read |
Normally for these year-in-review recaps, I start by going into some details about my life over the last twelve months. F*ck that sh*t this time. I'm focused full steam ahead on the future, baby. If you need a summary, 2015 was the year that I gifted myself my freedom. The results are much more positive […] Grab The 1WineDude.com Tasting Gui...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For December 28, 2015 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
Happy Holidays, Beeeaaatches! | Mark As Read |
Happy Holidays, beeeeaaatches!!! Take whatever holiday wine drinking advice you read with a serious heaping of salt grains (yes, even mine), and then drink whatever you want… just make sure it's good stuff (to you), okay? Hug your SO/loved ones/dogs/cats/gerbils/nutria. Be kind. Be generous. Be merry. Oh, and embedded below, there's a little ...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For December 21, 2015 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
Ho-Ho-Holy Crap, The Holidays Are Upon Us! (December 2015 Wine Product Roundup) | Mark As Read |
Ok, last-minute shoppers, I present (see what I did there?) to you the December 2015 edition of the 1WD Wine Product Roundup, in which I dive into the non-vinous portion of the product sample pool. Today, I've two items that will receive the deeper-dive inspection. The first is something about which I've serious mixed feelings: […] Grab The ...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For December 14, 2015 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
Don?t Yet Weep For Vinous Humanity (Wine.com?s Top 100 Wines 2015) | Mark As Read |
Hey, speaking of popularity contests… Another top-100 list was recently published, only in this case it's (thankfully) not about wine blogs, but about wine sales: Wine.com's annual Top 100 wines, chosen strictly by sales numbers (as they put it, "While many publications rank wines based on the opinions of their wine critics, we wanted our [...
OK, Everyone, Remain Calm And Have Another Sip (Wine Website Ranking Madness) | Mark As Read |
Ok, everyone… calm down. Pour another glass of something nice. Have a sip. Relaaaaax. Feeel zeee tension leeeaaaving your body… Every once in a while, we get a roundup/list/ranking of wine websites, and then oscillate between being happy for some of the sites on the list, and getting bent out of shape about the ones […] Grab The ...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For December 7, 2015 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
Back To The Future, And The Furmint Paradox (Thoughts On The Potential Of Dry Furmint) | Mark As Read |
As you'll see from the vid published earlier this week's, I recently had the pleasure of going back to Hungary, primarily to engage in Phase 2 of the FurmintUSA promotional program, filming a new set of videos for the Furmint Adventures series. That's always fun, because the wines are largely excellent, the scenery settings beautiful, […] Gr...
Furmint Adventures Episode 12: Szent Donát Winery | Mark As Read |
The latest episode of my Hungarian Furmint Adventures is ready to temporarily distract you from holiday shopping, and make you thirsty. In this episode, I'm joined by Ferry Plaza Wine Merchant's Peter Granoff, who makes a comical appearance and adds a bit of spot-on, Master-Somm-infused tasting commentary on the Furmint wines of Szent Donát Winery....
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For November 30, 2015 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
?The Worst Place In The World To Make Wine? (Tasting With The Madeira Wine Institute) | Mark As Read |
"If you're looking for the worst place in the world to make wine, Madeira would be a candidate." Also sprach Rui Falcão, during a recent tasting/masterclass for the media in Philly, hosted by the Madeira Wine Institute. You see, this is why I love Madeira with a passion bordering on unreasonableness. And the border is […] Grab The 1WineDude....
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For November 23, 2015 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
No No No No No No NO (Wine Is Still Not A Good Investment) | Mark As Read |
Recently, the Drinks Business reported that, according to Vin-X’s head of procurement Martin Pruszynski, "fine wine investment has been the best overall performer when total growth across major asset classes since 1988." No no no no no no NO. Not again. It seems that almost every year I write this retort. My view on this […] Grab The 1WineDu...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For November 16, 2015 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
Get Screwed This Winter (Publix Grape Winter 2015) | Mark As Read |
Just a quick hit to let you know that the Winter 2015 edition of Publix Grape Magazine should soon be available (if not already), and that I've once again penned the In Focus section (as well as some other items in that issue). This time, In Focus focuses on screwtop closures, with some insights from […] Grab The 1WineDude.com Tasting Guide ...
Millennials Aren?t Changing Wine ? Access To Information Is | Mark As Read |
If you read Lettie Teague's recent WSJ column entry, titled How Millennials Are Changing Wine, you will find some interesting data suggesting that Millennials are not, in fact, changing wine nearly as much as many of us think that they are. First, you'll have to wade through polemics such as the opening quote from New […] Grab The 1WineDude....
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For November 9, 2015 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
By The Books, Buy The Books (November 2015 Wine Product Roundup) | Mark As Read |
When it comes to wine books, there's a lot of printed material available that make excellent cases for protecting the world's forest land and leaving it untouched for our children's children's children. I know this because I receive those books as review copies for consideration with nearly as much frequency as I receive wine samples […] Gra...
Mama Don?t Take No Mess (Livermore Valley, Reconsidered at Palate Press) | Mark As Read |
One of my media tours this year had me returning to California's perennially underrated Livermore Valley, where I'd not been for a few years, and reconnecting with the likes of local vintners Karl Wente and Steve Mirassou, neither of whom I'd seen (or, more importantly, tasted with) lately. The tour was very well executed, with […] Grab The ...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For November 2, 2015 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
The Ugly Truth, The Pretty Bubbles (Mailly Champagne Recent Releases) | Mark As Read |
The ugly truth is that I – quite lazily – did not really want to write about Champagne cooperative Mailly (which takes its moniker, and the fruit from its Grand Cru vineyards, from the town of the same name). In fact, I felt so lazy about it, that I employed the writer's laziest device (the […] Grab The 1WineDude.com Tasting Guid...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For October 26, 2015 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
?Living Patrimony? (Bollinger Champagne Recent Releases) | Mark As Read |
In theory, it ought to be easy to hate on the Champagne house Bollinger. They're big (producing about 3 million bottles annually); they're kitschy-famous (getting the royal warrant from the UK market in 1884, and then becoming the official Champers of agent 007); they're fairly corporate (a staggering – and, one imagines, barely manageable ...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For October 19, 2015 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
That *Other* Perrier (Joseph Perrier Champagne Recent Releases) | Mark As Read |
Jean-Claude Fourmon – president of the fourth-generation family-owned Joseph Perrier in ChAslons-en-Champagne – doesn't seem at all deterred by the fact that, in the U.S., his brand is probably best known as "that other Perrier" that not-as-many people have tasted. He's quick with amusing witticisms, bordering on platitudes if not for h...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For October 12, 2015 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
Hey, Big Spender! (October 2015 Wine Product Roundup) | Mark As Read |
After the success of last week's wine product roundup (why aren't you people so free with your coinage when I ask you to donate to charities?), I figured I'd get an early lead on the October edition of the rummaging through of my product samples. Be forewarned, the selections aren't cheap, but they are well […] Grab The 1WineDude.com Tasting...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For October 5, 2015 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
Classy Openings, Surreptitious Sipping (September 2015 Wine Product Roundup) | Mark As Read |
Since closing out my Answers.com gig back in June of this year, I have found myself still inundated with wine product/accessory/gizmo samples (I've totally given up on trying to keep samples to a manageable number), but without a convenient (and conveniently highly trafficked) outlet with which to share the better or more interesting of those [R...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For September 28, 2015 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
Pennsylvania?s Latest Attempt To Alienate Its Wine Lovers | Mark As Read |
In what apparently is Pennsylvania's latest attempt to prove that it is, in fact, the single worst state in the Union for wine lovers, a recent ruling by Chester County Judge Edward Griffith has put the kibosh on saving a few thousand bottles of wine confiscated from resident Arthur Goldman (who was caught in a […] Grab The 1WineDude.com Tas...
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For September 21, 2015 | Mark As Read |
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab The 1W...
Blanc de Blancs, In The Nude (Jacques Lassaigne Recent Releases) | Mark As Read |
If you're in the bubbly business in the Aube (the southern region in France's Champagne-Ardenne), then you have to make peace with the fact that, compared with the popular Épernay and Ay to the north, you're basically the red-headed stepchild of Champagne. Unless you're Emmanuel Lassaigne, who crafts the bubbly at Champagne Jacques Lassaigne. In [&...
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