I’m pretty stoked to be working with Ben on this, and for the opportunity to show you the vinous, cultural, and culinary wonder that is Rioja.
There’s much I could write about the awesomeness that will be encountered on this tour, but the high-level summary is that by joining us, you will get the insider, VIP treatment in Rioja wine country, without having to do an of the work (wine writing, reviewing, spitting) that Ben and I normally have to do to get the same. Score!
This is going to be an entertaining, informative, and incredibly FUN trip. You’ll need to prepare your wallet, your mind, and your liver for this incredible jaunt…
I am, as I’ve noted ad nauseam lately, insanely behind on my producer/feature write-ups. That streak continues unabated at the moment, but this time it’s in favor of actually bringing you some vino recommendation (you’re welcome!).
I recently had the great pleasure of being a panelist speaker at the enormous VINO215 Italian wine trade and tasting event in NYC. I’ll get to some highlights from the tastings in a few moments, but first I wanted to tell you with as much humility as I could muster that my panel TOTALLY KILLED IT. I mean, look… we had… THIS:
That’s just Awesome with a capital A, (in the words of Martin Short’s Ed Grimley) “I must say!”
Which is, of course, my humorous attempt to tell you that I thought that my fellow panelists and moderator totally killed it in talking about the intersection of wine and music, and that I was basically just trying to keep up with them.
Of course, VINO2015 was chock-full of enough tasting opportunities to pickle all of your livers several times over, and so here are my takes on a few that turned my wine-geek-critic-type-guy head (with apologies in advance to the VINO2015 organizers, who focused on Southern Italy, while I apparently focused on Northern Italy, as you’ll soon see). Also, for those of you complainy-pants who constantly moan that I never talk about inexpensive wines, this your chance to bite it! (I mean that respectfully… I think…)…
What do you get when you cross a Master Sommelier, a Master of Wine, and… me?
I don’t know, either, but it’s happening, and I am guessing that it will be entertaining, and hopefully not a little informative.
Wine Conversations 2015
I’ll be joining Master Somm Evan Goldstein, and Master of Wine Bob Paulinski in both Santa Rosa and Portland this summer as part of the DIAM Wine Conversations Tasting and Marketing Forum. We’ll be discussing wine consumer trends, and I’m not gonna say that there will be a lot of tough love on that topic… but… well, we all know about my reputation as a speaker on such matters so consider yourselves officially warned.
Press-release-style details can be found below, after the jump.
1WineDude { Bob, yeah, I don't do the numbers. Having said that, I wouldn't draw such a hard line on the numerical scores. In the context of... } – Mar 05, 9:13 PM
Bob Henry { So I guess my long reply to your comment . . . "I don’t know whether to laugh at that sentiment, or feel insulted" .... } – Mar 05, 2:47 PM
Bob Henry { Quoting an excerpt from Parker's 1989 interview with Wine Times magazine: "WINE TIMES: You mean when you are in the cellars of Burgundy, you look... } – Mar 05, 2:35 PM
1WineDude { Bob, for what it's worth, I basically use the same scale I employ for wine reviews, with B level wines being silver and A level... } – Mar 05, 10:22 AM
August { This information is great but why is it posted again almost a year later. I need to know the latest information not from last year.... } – Mar 05, 9:42 AM
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