It’s with great pleasure (and after a sh*tload of hard work, not to mention wine tastings) that I reveal the 2011 version of 1WineDude.com’s Most Interesting Wines Of The Year! The “competition” (such as it is, though it really isn’t such) was once again fierce, due to the volume of wines I tried in 2011…
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Georges Duboeuf Wine Book Of The Year Awards, Continued (“Best Of The Rest” Giveaway!)
For the next act in my continuing saga as judge in the Georges Duboeuf Wine Book of the Year Awards, I wanted to detail the awards finalists that didn’t make the cut for my top three candidates for this year’s award (the three is not an arbitrary number, by the way – as judges,…
Zen Wine: 1971 J.J. Prüm And The Greatest Of Wine’s Gifts Outside The Glass
Doug Cook, founder of the amazing wine search engine AbleGrape, is smart guy. A really smart guy; as in, instantly-doubles-the-IQ-of-the-room-when-he-walks-in-no-matter-how-many-people-are-there smart. His intelligence level is matched only by his largesse, especially when it comes to sharing wines from his extensive and impressive cellar. That generosity was on full display at the recent Pro Wine Writers…
The 2011 Professional Wine Writers Symposium In 10 Easily Digestible Morsels
1) It is the darkest of times for wine writing. The general decline in the consumption of real journalistic reporting has resulted in immensely talented people being out of regular wine-writing-work. The black cloud enveloping the wine writing sphere is actually the dark cloak of the grim reaper; that silver lining you see is his…