Shall we explore the world of restaurant wine lists, while interpolating the badassness of Earth Wind & Fire in the process? What the hell, why not? First, we can establish the baddassness of EWF right away – that’s easy: They funked, singing harmonies in octaves that would require most people to otherwise suck helium to…
Category: learning wine
The Summer of Wine’s Discontent (or "What Wine Can Learn From Beer")
The wine world probably won’t miss the Summer of `08. That’s because the Summer of `08 seems like wine’s Season of Discontent. A fictitious restaurant won an Award of Excellence from long-running wine institution Wine Spectator; Wine Spectator’s response, posted in their on-line forums rather than through a PR effort, showed a darker side of…
Wine Mags that are Worth Reading
Asking me what wine mags to read is sort of like asking me what television shows are worth watching. I access them so infrequently, that I’m in danger of being totally irrelevant in my commentary. But what the hell, it’s never stopped me before! I also get bored easily, so committing to reading an entire…
A Wine Introduction (and Some 1WineDude.com Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes)
Changes are afoot here at 1WineDude.com. By the way, I recently learned that the first recorded use of “afoot” was in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” – which is way cool. I’m a nerd, I know. Anyway, I’m making some slight changes in the footprint (ha-ha) of the blog posts. Basically, they will start to get shorter…