July 2008
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The Trouble With Wine Ratings (an Introduction to the 89 Project)
Excellence. You deserve it. You demand it. It haunts you. It drives you. It’s so Powerful. It makes you. Speak. In Broken. Sentences. We’re obsessed with comparing things when we make purchases, especially in the U.S. Some of us are always out there looking for…
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What the Heck Kind of Wine are You, Anyway? An exercise in Blog Introspection
I’ve been doing a bit of introspection here at 1WineDude.com. Since this is a blog, the introspection has been performed entirely on-line, using two different tools that other wine bloggers have been dabbling with as well. So, no chance of my becoming a better person…
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An Abolitionist Movement: Down With Wine Monopolies!
As many of you already know, I am no friend of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. I suppose that is putting it a bit mildly, since I’ve likened their unconcstitutional state-run wine monopoly to Communism, publicly ridiculed the 40%+ premium that they add to state…
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An International Incident: Connecting with Wine Bloggers in the ‘Real World’
This past week, during a trip to Windsor I had the pleasure of meeting up with two very talented an knowledgeable wine bloggers – Robert McIntosh (the Wine Conversation), and Andrew Barrow (the venerable Spittoon.biz). In the ‘real world’ that is. I also had the…
