Here’s a (long-overdue) run down of some of my Answers.com Expert gig articles from August 2013, also known as “The Month That My Back Told Me To Go F—k Myself.” On the Chardonnay front: Inspired by a recent gig I did manning the social media ambassador duties for the 2013 Chardonnay Symposium (if you missed…
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Bringing Tough Love To Cape Town (Nederburg Wine Auction 2013)
I’m very excited to tell you that I’ll be delivering the keynote address at the 39th Nederburg Wine Auction in Cape Town, South Africa on September 7th. Nederburg is often cited as one of the wine world’s most major auctions annually. So… no pressure… no pressure…! The 2013 auction collection includes 72 red wines, 36…
Brett May Not Be The Enemy (Talking Brett With MW Christy Canterbury, And Tasting WineSmith’s Crucible)
I’ve long waged a sort of mini-war (no height jokes!) on brettanomyces. Equating it to barnyard, horse sweat, and Band-Aid stinkiness in vino, as someone who’d personally rather go for the naked, unabashed, nowhere-to-hide purity of wines like Mosel Riesling over the bombast of overdone modern red wines, I hated how Brett buried wines in…
Whistle-stop Sonoma Wine And Food Tour, British Style (The Guardian’s America Uncovered)
This past weekend, The Guardian (the one “over the pond” in the UK) published my recommendations of wine and food places to hit when driving from Seattle to northern California, as part of their America Uncovered series. Like 99.9% of all of my other paying gigs, this one found me [ editor’s note: this is…