This is a guest post from frequent 1WineDude.com contributor Jason Whiteside, who recently attained his WSET Diploma in Wines & Spirits (with Merit). Jason recently returned from a trip to Argentina, cataloged below, in which he went inside Bodega Catena Zapata to answer the question “How Well Does New World Malbec Age?” His trip…
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What Price Bordeaux: Bordeaux’s Loss of Identity By The Numbers
Master of Wine and scientist Benjamin Lewin’s non-fiction book What Price Bordeaux has a title that, unlike many non-fictional works, is meant to convey a series of meanings or themes that are touched on at some point in the body of the work itself. In this case, What Price Bordeaux refers, at turns, to The…
Wine Gives Back: Relief for Haiti and Chilean Wine Workers
A few tidbits to end the week on some hopeful notes: Palate Press Kicks Ass for Haiti Relief Mad props are due to on-line wine e-zine Palate Press for their efforts (mostly spearheaded by yeoman David Honig, its Publisher) to raise money for the Red Cross’ Haiti Relief & Development activities. David organized a stellar…
Wine Bullsh*t Bingo (and other tidbits)
Here’s one for the “it’s NOT just me” department: Remember last week, when I jokingly poked fun (or, as my friends in the U.K. would say, “took the piss out of”) the current state of California vintage reports? Well, most of the people who left comments and contacted me via twitter, facebook, and e-mail took…