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The First – And Last – 160 Days: What Does Gary Vaynerchuk’s Exit Mean For The Wine World?
Those of you who have just been rescued from being stranded for decades in South American jungles and are now coming to grips with you strange new world that involves cellular telephones, 3D television and the Global Interwebs, might not have heard that influential wine…
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The Hopeless Quest To Define Wines Of True Character (Or “Screw The Ratings, Even Mine”)
Roughly two months ago, in the follow-on discussions on a feature on the wines of Lodi producer Matt Powell, a reader named Olivier chimed on with some though-provoking questions, the kind that, for me, define the 1WD readership because they exponentially increase the value of…
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NJ Assembly Majority Leader Disses His Own Wine-Buying Constituents
I know that a lot of people like to jokingly poke fun at New Jersey from time to time (c’mon… admit it… they even had a NJ joke in Madagascar 2 and that was a kids flik), but do some people really think that NJ’s…
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Why Every Wine Lover Should Have A Wine Blog
If you love wine, you can do something that costs $0.00 and almost certainly will up your wine appreciation and wine tasting I.Q. score varios puntos. Namely, start a wine blog. Right now. It will take you less than ten minutes. Go to wordpress.com and…
