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Wine Blogging Wednesday #43 – Wrap-Up

Posted on March 13, 2008 by 1WineDude

Hey everyone – the wrap-up of articles for Wine Blogging Wednesday #43 has been posted over at the Wine Life Today blog. Check it out – the wine bloggers involved wrote some great stories and reviews for this WBW. The topic this time around was “comfort wines” and Joel over at WLT has done a…

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Announcing "Tales of the Purple Monkey!"

Posted on March 12, 2008September 8, 2015 by 1WineDude

Inspired in part by El Bloggo Torcido’s Take Your Rubber Chicken to Work Day, as well as Jill’s plans to introduce a plush toy version of her wine bottle mascot at domaine547 – and, to be more honest, to give myself an excuse to play with my baby daughter’s plush toys – I give you…

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WBW #43: Dude’s Comfort Wine (or How I Survived My Brother’s Heart Surgery)

Posted on March 5, 2008May 13, 2020 by 1WineDude

For Wine Blogging Wednesday #43 (this round hosted over at the fine WineLifeToday blog), we’ve been asked to review a “Comfort Wine” – and to explain why, like a good comfort food, this wine evokes some special, relaxing, or good-ol’-down-home feeling for us. First, let’s start with my comfort wine. Then I’ll lay the story…

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My Readers are Smarter, More Talented, and More Attractive than Me (Reader Haiku)

Posted on February 21, 2008 by 1WineDude

(image: dailyzen.com)It’s official. 1WineDude.com readers are smarter, funnier, more talented, and in all likelihood more attractive than I am. I say this because: I am arguably an impish gnome with a half-baked palate trying to earn an honest living from near-constant drinking (curse you, Zane Lamprey – you stole my job!), and I have received…

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