July 2013
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What Do You Wish You’d Learned About Wine Sooner?
I’ve spent the better part of the first half of the year learning about… finance. That is, now that wine is my “job,” (it feels really cool to type that) I needed another outlet, something about which I’d been passionate and wanted to learn more,…
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Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For July 29, 2013
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant…
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Who’s Buying Ultra Premium Wines? Not Millionaires (Tasting The 2011 Cloudburst Chardonnay)
I was recently contacted by a PR person who didn’t want to send me samples, but instead wanted to interview me about a wine. That probably sounds odd (it certainly feels odd to type it). I suppose that it is kind of odd. But it’s…
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Are You Wine Trainable, Or Wine Intelligent?
My oversized dog, Brunello – so named because he’s big (well over 115 lbs) and Italian (a Cane Corso) – is one of the most trainable dogs I’ve ever owned. He’s also dumber than a bag of hammers. Bruno is sweet, fairly gentle, and learns…
