December 2020
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Top 10 1WineDude Articles of 2020 (Year of the Book Edition)
And so here we are… finally… with 2020, the year of SiP, virtual tastings, and no being able to actually visit one another about to head into the rear-view mirror, well, view. It seems an appropriate time to take a brief look back on the…
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Gonna Take a Newwwwwws Break (Follow 1WineDude on the New App!)
So… I went and did a thing. I’ve partnered up with news app News Break to provide some (hopefully!) fun and informative wine content. I’ll be steadily ramping up articles on their platform over the next few months (1WineDude.com isn’t going anywhere, by the way;…
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Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For December 28, 2020
2017 Luce della Vite ‘Lucente’ (Tuscany): Tangy rusticity meets polished refinement. $29 A- 2016 Odfjell Armador Cabernet Sauvignon (Maipo Valley): Herbal, dark, and almost forcefully tasty. $NA B+ 2017 Concha y Toro ‘Terrunyo’ Block 27 Peumo Vineyard Carmenere (Cachapoal Valley): Big black cherry, big black…
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Wine in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 19: Call of the Wild (Kenwood Vineyards Recent Releases)
Wine and art congruences (is that actually a noun?) tend to be mostly marketing hype more often than not. So it’s especially fun when one turns out to not only be legit, but also LIT. At least, that’s the impression I got during one of…
