Don’t have your Winter holiday shopping done yet? Dang, you’re probably screwed, then! Oh well, best to start drinking, right? Given that the holiday gift rush has been on my mind, the December 2014 Wine.Answers.com article roundup is all about wine-related gift action this month. Unfortunately, not all of the products are sure-fire hits, as…
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The Wine Snob: A Short Field Guide
Instances and identification of the Wine Snob in the wild The wine snob is easily encountered but often difficult to successfully identify in the wild. This is because the wine snob in almost all salient ways physically resembles the human homo sapiens. Often, the only way to successfully identify the wine snob is via verbal…
Answers.com Wine Article Round-Up, September 2013
A quick round-up of some of my articles from last month’s Answers.com gig, for your tomato-tossing enjoyment. Continuing the series on getting insiders to talk about what to expect from various varietal wines: Cabernet Sauvignon with Cornerstone Cellar’s Craig Camp (Go Craig! Go Craig! Camp dishes on his ideal version of Cab). Chenin Blanc with…
Can Wine Appreciation Actually Enrich Your Life? (1WineDude On Brent Smith LIVE)
This week, things are light here on 1WD, because when you’re reading this post, I’ll be doing something that I haven’t really done in almost the entire multi-year lifespan of this little corner of The Global Interwebs; take a vacation. As in, a real vacation. As in, time off from everything-not-vacation-related, the kind of stuff…