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A Search For The Soul Of North American Wine Writing (Via South American Wine)
I think traditional American wine-writing may have totally jumped the shark. Yeah, I am actually going there. And yeah, it will probably take around 1100 words. You see, last week marked my (extremely) long-overdue second contribution to Nomad Editions’ iPad wine magazine, Uncorked. The long-overdue…
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Can A Wine Critic’s Opinion Really Be Trusted? (Dissecting the Pontifications of Bettane & Desseauve’s Guide to the Wines of France)
Too much of a good thing, can, in fact, be had, especially when you’re talking about wine books; the sight alone of which used to bring me great pleasure but now fills me with a OMG-I’ve-got-term-paper-due-soon type of dread because I’ve not so much as…
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We’re Number… Sixteen! (Thoughts On Decanter’s 2011 Wine Power List)
In a move that seems to be a big deal (especially to its publisher!), last week Decanter unveiled the 2011 version of their bi-annual Power List of the wine world’s most influential people. The biggest news, it appears, is that Richard Sands, the chairman of…
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Prove Your Awesomeness By Donating Today – Let’s Kick Alzheimer’s Ass!!!
I wrote a few years ago about links between moderate wine drinking and lower instances of dementia. This is because, at the time, my grandmother suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. She died from it, at the age of 96 – but the truth is, she was…
