Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), who founded the farming practices now known under the certification of Biodynamics, was largely full of sh*t. For example, Steiner was all about making wild claims based on anonymous sources long before it became the new standard of presidential tweeting in the U.S.; just check out a handful of the claims he […] G...

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 in a mini-review format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to […] Grab The 1Win...

Recently, an examination of a rather large data set of studies (we're talking nearly 200 countries, and over 690 pieces of work involving millions of people) was published in Lancet, and most of my alcohol-loving friends just about lost their sh*t. The reason for the theoretical emergency bowel-vacating stemmed from media coverage of one of […...

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 in a mini-review format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to […] Grab The 1Win...

The results of the 2018 Oregon Wine Experience Competition are in and have recently been announced, and since I was more-or-less directly responsible for said results, I thought that I'd share some of them with you all here. Before I do, however… a couple of thoughts/insights/dime-store-philosphocal-treatise on the experience of the OW Experi...

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 in a mini-review format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to […] Grab The 1Win...

As my pile of (admittedly somewhat neglected) wine book review copies is growing ever larger, this month's wine product review roundup will focus on two soon-to-be-released bits of printed vinous educational resources. Both of these books will start to see shelf space in September, both are priced at $24.95, and both are about wine, and […] ...

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 in a mini-review format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to […] Grab The 1Win...

In the lower-ish (we're still talking about 400-or-so meters of elevation) valley of Spain's sunny Montsant region sits a small town (ok, village) of El Masroig. El Masroig is quaint enough to be named (in Catalan, of course) "red country house" (most likely from the red clay soils that dominate this area of Priorat country), […] Grab The 1W...

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 in a mini-review format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to […] Grab The 1Win...

Folks, we're getting old. It's hard to believe that it's been a full five years since my friend, fellow wine competition judge, all-around decent guy, and prolific author Michael Cervin assembled the last edition of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the US Wine Industry. So much has changed in those ensuing five revolutions […] Grab The...

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 in a mini-review format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to […] Grab The 1Win...

My gig with the Barbera and Monferrato folks over at MyNameIsBarbera.com has come to an end, and so you'll be seeing a couple of wrap-up posts of mine over there as the 2018 Summer hits high season and then fades into Autumn (by far the best time of the year, especially in my neck of […] Grab The 1WineDude.com Tasting Guide and start getting...

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 in a mini-review format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to […] Grab The 1Win...

If you visit Montsant's Vinyes Domnech, located in the southern portion of the winemaking district that nearly encircles Spain's famous Priorat area like a talon, be forewarned that owner Joan Ignasi Domnech is likely to talk sh*t. As in, literally speak about sh*t. Like, fertilizer. Along with solar energy, water collection, and all things botanic...

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 in a mini-review format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to […] Grab The 1Win...

Not too long ago – ok, well, actually, several months ago, but I'm just getting back around to the topic now because I've been busy being all self-employed and day-drinking and what-not – I was invited to lunch with the dry-humored Jrme Keller, Technical Director/Oenologist for Alsace stalwart produce Lucien Albrecht. Now, it hasn't bee...

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 in a mini-review format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to […] Grab The 1Win...

This might be one of the earliest monthly wine product samples roundups here on 1WD, but I'm tending to a sick kiddo at the moment, and figured that I'd use the limited available writing window give you the lowdown on a couple of rather not-so-inexpensive wine products (no book reviews this month!) before I accidentally […] Grab The 1WineDud...

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 in a mini-review format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to […] Grab The 1Win...

We can surely file this one in the I-still-can't-believe-that-I've-fooled-everyone-for-so-long pile: I've been asked to judge yet another wine competition. This time, it's the 2018 incarnation of The Oregon Wine Competition, part of the more comprehensive Oregon Wine Experience, taking place August 20-26, 2018 in Jacksonville, OR, and benefiting As...

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 in a mini-review format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to […] Grab The 1Win...

Welcome to the June 2018 incarnation of the ongoing series in which I review samples that aren't in liquid form. I am so, so, sooooooooooooooooooooo far behind in penning thoughts on various tastings and wine travels, but I'm also so, so, sooooooooooooooooooooo far behind in reviewing the never-ending flood of wine book samples coming my […] ...

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 in a mini-review format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to […] Grab The 1Win...

"When minds are dripping color, And there's liquid on the brain They laugh to one another, And politely go insane" – Primus, The Dream Last month, I had the pleasure of (once again) checking out the funky, entertaining, and technically dazzling band Primus, as they rolled through Philly on their Ambushing the Storm tour. Primus […] Gra...

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 in a "mini-review" format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to […] Grab The 1W...

So… I promised a follow-up to that 2016 Vintage Port preview, and since I'm a man(-child) of my word, here 'tis! The central theme of my `16 VP roundup was that we all need to slow the f*ck down and accept the fact that Vintage Port not only takes a looooooong time to come around, […] Grab The 1WineDude.com Tasting Guide and start gett...

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-ish characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab Th...

Once again, I had both the pleasure and the honor of judging at the annual Critics Challenge wine competition, held in (stay classy!) San Diego and helmed by WineReviewOnline.com‘s Robert Whitley. This year, I was paired up with talented author Linda MurphyAs (whose book American Wine you should absolutely check out, because it kicks all kind...

Recently, I was invited for a media-lunch-tasting-type-thingy in Philly with the affably hippie-ish-appearing Greg Morthole, who has been making wines for the Davis Bynum label since 2010. Davis Bynum wa purchased by Rodney Strong in 2007, and before that was a bit of a Sonoma-area legend, based on its eponymous founder. That Davis Bynum (who [R...

Next Monday (or June 11, 2018, at the time of this writing), will mark the final run of the Wine Mini-Review Round-Up posts in their current incarnation here on 1WineDude. After that date, the corresponding "broadcast-only" twitter account associated with those reviews, 1WineDudeReview, will no longer be maintained. Mini-reviews will also no longer...

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-ish characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab Th...

I recently received the kind of media invite that one doesn't turn down, unless one doesn't have a choice: join a bunch of wine peeps in NYC to taste through a preview of the new 2016 Port vintage, led by representatives from several of the major Port houses. Uhm… yeah, we are definitely going to […] Grab The 1WineDude.com Tasting Guid...

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-ish characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab Th...

It's time once again for our monthly roundup of those wine-related samples received here at 1WD HQ that aren't actually wine. While the last few months have focused on wine book releases, this month features… well, a wine book release, but also some other stuff that involve your wine-lovin' eyeballs. First, let's get the book […] Grab ...

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-ish characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab Th...

One of the worst aspects of the current state of political "discourse" in the USA is the penchant of leaders in our government towards vocalizing complete and total falsehoods, whenever and however it furthers their individual and/or party agendas, with seemingly little consequence for their actions. Where they deem it necessary, they also repeated...

Albert Jané knows how to work a wine media crowd. If you want to quickly win over such a group of wine geeks and influencers, you would have had access to a minor clinic in such powers of persuasion had you tagged along during my recent media tour visit to Jané's Acústic Cellar, in the […] Grab The 1WineDude.com Tasting Guide and start ge...

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-ish characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab Th...

Back in February, I spent a handful of days in the charmingly-imposing Italian town of Montefalco, as the U.S. media guest attending the anteprima showing of Sagrantino's somewhat-troubled 2014 vintage. Generally, the way that these things work is that we press-types get to sit around in beautiful locales tasting (and pontificating upon) the latest...

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-ish characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab Th...

Hey, remember when I waxed all dime-store-poetic about the longevity and power of Barbera reds from the relatively-new, tippy-top-of-the-Asti-area-quality-pyramid region of Nizza? Well, I do. Anyway, if you're curious how the highest-end Piedmonte Barbera wines fare when they have upwards of a decade of aging under their labels, check out the lates...

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-ish characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab Th...

It's time here on 1WD for entry in the ongoing wine product sample roundup articles series, in which I try out samples sent to me that are not directly vinous / edible in nature. Once again, I've tried to whittle down the pile of wine-related tomes cluttering my office floor, but I also managed to […] Grab The 1WineDude.com Tasting Guide and...

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-ish characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab Th...

For my daughter's birthday, generally I host a fairly large party; while there is a theme (Spider-Man this year – see inset pic – because my kiddo is awesome), and while there are plenty of kids (usually about a third of the 20-30 guests), it's not a kiddo party per se. It's just an old-school […] Grab The 1WineDude.com Tasting G...

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-ish characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab Th...

The name Perticaia is familiar to lovers of big Italian reds, but its meaning – "plow" in the local dialect – likely isn't as well-known. It is, however, an apt description of how Azienda Agraria Perticaia has forced its way through to the top of the critical food chain when it comes to Montefalco Sagrantino […] Grab The 1WineDud...

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-ish characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available […] Grab Th...

Drinking Montefalco Sagrantino is kind of like having kinky sex. I mean, there's the juicy anticipation phase when you smell all of that ripe red fruit and spice on the nose; then there's the sexy, feel-good phase when the wine enters your palate like silk; and then… WHACK! The tannins smack/bite/spank you. This is not […] Grab The 1Wi...