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:…
Category: book reviews
Wines Of The Southern Hemisphere (Giveaway!)
My friends the World Wine Guys (aka Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen) have been busy lately, it seems. First, they publish the Fire Island Cookbook just in time for Summer, and now that Summer is coming to a close they’re already back on the shelves with another well-executed tome, Wines Of The Southern Hemisphere (Sterling…
Wine Between The Covers (3 Wine Books For Oenophiles To Grab Before The Summer Reading Season Ends)
There’s still time, people. Summer’s muggy, sunny weeks are not yet entirely on the wane. They’re just mostly on the wane. And so those bibliophile oenophiles who are looking for last-minute beach-side vacation or porch-side stay-cation reading to accompany a cold glass of Italian Vermentino in the hazy heat (you are drinking Vermentino, right?) still have…
Fire Island Burning! (Cookbook Giveaway!)
I first met the World Wine Guys (otherwise known as Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen) when in New York City tasting through a shedload of New Zealand Sauv Blancs and Pinot Noirs (and learning how the Kiwis shuck oysters). At the time, they told me that they were in throes of writing not a wine…
