This week finds me in Paso Robles, courtesy of the Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance, presumably because you folks don’t get enough images of beautiful vineyard locations coupled with smarmy captions here on 1WineDude.com, so we need a trip to get you some more, you greedy little things! I’ll be taking part in what they…
Category: going pro
Interviews, Mini-Reviews, And Prepping For Big News
Just in case you’re not sick of me yet (you are reading this, right Mom?), 1WD has cropped up in the Global Interwebs in two interesting extra-curriculars in the past few weeks. The first is in in the form of an interview I did for The Urban Grocer (don’t ask me, I’m not sure why these…
Down With The Gatekeepers, Up With The Long Tail
A friend of mine, that talented writer David White, recently gave a speech at the 2011 Nederburg Auction in South Africa. The title of the talk: “The End of the Gatekeeper: How The Online Revolution is Revolutionizing Wine.” Forgiving the potential redundancy in the title (a revolution does have to revolutionize something, by definition, at…
Vacation? What Vacation?!?? (Nine Days Under The Tuscan Sun)
I’m about to do something that I haven’t really done in about ten years. No, not drink a bunch of crappy, low-end Pinot Grigio. C’mon, I’m not insane here. No, I’m talking about taking a vacation. As in, a real vacation and not one in which I actually end up visiting something like 75 wine…