ARTICLES
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Turning Wine into Water (Wine Blogging Wednesday #50)
In this exciting edition of Tales of the Purple Monkey, Plumboo (that’s the monkey) and I brave the wilds of Africa, don’t actually taste any wine, and then urge you…
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Has Anyone Ever Told You that You Look Exactly Like… a Drunk? (Dispatch from a Wine Tasting Room)
I’m guessing that most of you out there have probably been to a wine tasting room in a winery before, and went there to sample that winery’s wines. Which means…
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Found in Translation (Wine Tidbits to Kick-off Your Weekend)
OK… I’ve been sitting on a few wine-related tidbits that, taken individually, I probably wouldn’t have written about; but taken together, they seemed kinda fun. The first tidbit comes to…
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Truly Truly Truly (A German Wine Experience, Not Having Anything to do with Space Aliens)
Sometimes (okay, lots of times) I can get truly stumped by the world of fine wine. And today, file me under the Truly Stumped category, because I can’t figure out…
DUDE’S BOOKS
How to WIN at Wine: A Practical Playbook for Getting Maximum Enjoyment from Every Bottle — Without Spending a Fortune
Unlearning Wine: How to Drink Past Wine’s Most Persistent Myths
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