Flying back to the States from the U.K. this past weekend, visions of Steelers touchdown passes dancing in my head, something occurred to me. Actually, a few things occurred to me: Flying West into the sunset (or East into a sunrise) at several thousand feet is a visual treat of unmatched proportions, with the cloud…
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The Rise of Snooth.com (or "Get on the Virtual Wine Bus, Already!")
Now this is interesting. Well, interesting to me, anyway: Venerable Internet tech. news site TechCrunch recently profiled Snooth.com (I’m an affiiate, so it caught my eye), detailing its growing popularity, and its impressive ability to secure angel funding during a very dank, dark, and dastardly economic climate. Getting featured on TechCrunch is newsworthy enough in…
Judging the Judges: Study Shows Wine Judges Aren’t That Reliable (or does it…?)
The Journal of Wine Economics has just published a study authored by Robert T. Hodgson titled An Examination of Judge Reliability at a major U.S. Wine Competition. The reported findings should make the fodder for about 10,000 wine blog articles over the next few weeks. The study tracked the ability of wine competition judges to…
Why Huge Wine Lists Suck
With the recent review I penned for WCDish.com, I’ve had restaurant wine lists on the brain lately. Which means that this post will likely be ill-timed, given the dearth of restaurant-goers in an economy that is wading knee-deep in layoff announcements. Oh well – timing was never one of my strong suits. Anyway, as a…