In this special weekend edition of 1WineDude.com, I have some epically gargantuanly stunningly-hyphenated-made-up-adverbially BIG news to share with you all. Steve Heimoff, of Wine Enthusiast Magazine (not sure if it’s the English or Mandarin version… but sh*t, I’d better find that out REAL soon) are SWAPPING GIGS. Yes, ou’re reading that correctly. Steve Heimoff will…
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Will Bordeaux Be Fine Wine’s Benchmark In 100 Years? (A Candid Conversation With Eric Asimov)
Ah, Bordeaux… can’t live with its inflated prices… pass the peanuts! The wine biz has been in a serious tizzy since Robert Parker released his scores for the 2009 Bordeaux offerings – and he was in a generous mood, with damn-near twenty wines garnering “perfect” 100 point scores, including the likes of Bellevue Mondotte, and…
Do Wine Experts Taste Differently Than You (And Does It Matter)?
I don’t mean here that if you lick a wine expert (something I do not recommend, unless you happen to be Heidi Klum and the wine expert you plan on tasting is me) they taste like chocolate-covered hazelnut while you taste like a dog coming out of the rain. I mean, are wine experts hard-wired…
Meet Playboy.com’s New Dot Com Wine Dude
Yep. Really. I’m crazy excited to tell you that I will soon be authoring a freelance wine column on Playboy.com. So now you have some legitimacy behind the “I’m just going there for the articles, honey!” excuse (you’re welcome!). The folks behind Playboy.com reached out to me many moons ago, and the whole thing has…