June 2018
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Patience Becomes Virtue (About 40 Years Of Vintage Port)
So… I promised a follow-up to that 2016 Vintage Port preview, and since I’m a man(-child) of my word, here ’tis! The central theme of my `16 VP roundup was that we all need to slow the f*ck down and accept the fact that Vintage…
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Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For June 11, 2018
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-ish characters). They are meant…
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Critics Challenge 2018 Highlights
Once again, I had both the pleasure and the honor of judging at the annual Critics Challenge wine competition, held in (stay classy!) San Diego and helmed by WineReviewOnline.com‘s Robert Whitley. This year, I was paired up with talented author Linda Murphy (whose book American Wine…
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Who’s Your Daddy… Of RRV Single Vineyard Pinot? (Davis Bynum Recent Releases)
Recently, I was invited for a media-lunch-tasting-type-thingy in Philly with the affably hippie-ish-appearing Greg Morthole, who has been making wines for the Davis Bynum label since 2010. Davis Bynum wa purchased by Rodney Strong in 2007, and before that was a bit of a Sonoma-area…
