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Three Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Be a Wine Blogger
So… you wanna be a wine blogger, eh? [ Editor’s note: sorry, did not mean to sound Canadian there…]. Well, I’m here to tell ya NOT to do it. Now, before you flame me with nasty e-mails and comments, please bear in mind that I…
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Stop Picking on Robert Parker (the Subjectivity of Wine Tasting)
You can all stop picking on Robert Parker now. The oft-followed and just as oft-maligned wine critic extraordinaire is doing you a favor. A favor if you, like him, have a wine palate that tends towards the bombastic, that is. A great post on the…
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The Price is Right? What Influences Wine Prices
How much is that bottle of wine in the window? Not that you’d want to buy wine that’s been sitting in a window for any extended period of time, since it’s probably baked from the exposure to all of that light and temperature variation. Anyway,…
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This World is Full of Crashing (Wine) Bores
Arthur Przebinda (of redwinebuzz.com) has an opinion piece published today in the L.A. Times‘ Blowback section. It’s well worth a few minutes of your busy time to read. In his well-written rebuttal of Joel Stein’s amusing but ultimately misguided take on “wine snobbery”, Arthur contends…
