I hate this debate. Actually, I love the debate, I just hate the way it’s being presented; namely, without a single shred of hard evidence to back up the claims that wine blogs are now dinosaurs. People, wine blogging is, quite literally, about Kindergarten age. Wine blogging has been around for something like 7 years,…
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What The Recent Debates Over Low/High Alcohol Tell Us About The Future Of Fine Wine Buying
NOTHING That’s the short version. Here’s the slightly longer version: Seriously, the debate (10 million plus search results, and counting!) over the perceived consumer trend towards lower alcohol wines (I’ve yet to see any convincing, hard data supporting this claim, by the way, in terms of any significant percentage shift of sales towards lower abv…
Let’s Kick Alzheimer’s Ass, Together (With A Giveaway!)
I’ve been churning out content on 1WineDude.com for about five years, and over the last year or two articles have been posted here just about five days a week. Total cost to you, aside from your time and smarties, is somewhere around $0.00. But today… Today, I’m asking you to pay up. But not to…
What’s Next, Le Bastard Surpoids? (Consumers Might Pay More For Difficult-To-Pronounce Wines, So NPR Thinks You’re A D-Bag)
First, let me say that I normally love NPR. In fact, I consider not having an opportunity to listen to NPR news during the morning commute as the thing that I miss the most about having a traditional 9-to-5 job. But when NPR runs a story titled “Fancy Names Can Fool Wine Geeks Into Paying…