Time to get your drink on, people! My new book, Wine Taster’s Guide: Drink and Learn with 30 Wine Tastings, has as of this week (specifically, July 21, 2020) been officially released. 30 is a lot of tastings, so I hope that your livers have been properly trained for this! This is the “main” book…
Wine In the Time of Coronavirus, Part 48: Heavy Metal Memories (Caprio Cellars Flagship Red)
You wouldn’t know it by looking at his relatively clean-cut appearance now, but Caprio Cellars winemaker and owner Dennis Murphy used to be in a heavy metal garage band. In fact, I give him mad props for instantly and authoritatively identifying who Eddie was during our recent Zoom tasting (as in tasting over Zoom, not…
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up for July 26, 2021
NV Exigeante Brut (France): France’s [late] response to Prosecco. Kudos for adding reserve wine for the yeastiness. $22 B 2019 Mack & Schuhle ‘Art of Earth’ Organic Red (Montepulciano d’Abruzzo): Delightful stuff, and even kind of grippy; Neighborhood BBQ, here we come! $12 B 2016 Reva Dolcetto d’Alba (Piedmont): Tangy, gritty, earthy, and rustic… and…
PSA: It Burns When I Feed (You Might Need to Resubscribe to 1WD!)
Just a very quick PSA – and apologies in advance to those of you to whom this does NOT pertain: There are still quite a few of you out there who are subscribed to 1WD via Feedburner, a once-awesome platform for managing blog updates via several channels, including email. For those of you signed up…
Wine Taster’s Guide 1 Year Anniversary Giveaway (Signed Copies Up for Grabs)!
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!??? It’s officially been an entire year since the release of my first two “official” published-author-type books with Rockridge Press: Wine Taster’s Journal and Wine Taster’s Guide: Drink and Learn with 30 Wine Tastings. And what a year it’s been… no real travel, LOTS (and lots… and lots…) of virtual wine sample tastings while sheltering…
