I haven’t always been kind to Bordeaux. Okay, actually I’ve pretty much never been kind to Bordeaux. But that’s because Bordeaux’s most visible stand-bearers – the classified growths at the high-end of the production spectrum, making wines that most of us 99%-ers cannot afford – hasn’t really been all that kind itself to the general…
Category: twitter
Do You Care About Wine Yeasts? (Crowd-Sourcing Wine Learning)
Last week, I wondered aloud (on twitter) whether or not anyone out there cares if a winery uses cultured yeasts instead of wild yeasts. The feedback from the twitterati is included below after the jump (if you chimed in already via twitter, your response may be listed for all of the 1WD faithful to see…
Mad Props: Custom Twitter Background Edition
Many moons ago, a very nice young lady by the name of Alana Riley, who had friended me up on twitter, contacted me to see if I was interested in a customized twitter background for my twitter landing page. You know, so I can keep up the appearance of professionalism and all that. Was I…
Wines of Germany TasteLive Launch Event Redux – Dec. 3rd!
It’s baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack…! Wines of Germany will be launching their very own TasteLive.com events page, and to celebrate they will be kicking it off with a redux of the on-line live tasting that we’d originally scheduled for the end of October. I’ll be your blogger co-host for the on-line tasting, which will take place at 8PM…
