Two weeks ago in my Playboy.com Wined Down column, I interviewed two friends for whom I have mad respect – wine writers and educators Mark Oldman and Leslie Sbrocco – to put together a list of what we considered the top five “wine lies.” The idea was to bust up five of the most prevalent…
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Poetry Inn And Traveling Like A “One-Percenter” For Playboy.com
Last week, I made a foray into a (sort of) non-wine related piece of writing for Playboy.com’s Nightlife section, contributing to what they call the “1% Travel Guide.” The idea behind that guide is to feature travel destinations so remote, or so extreme, or so exclusive, or so expensive (or some combination of the four)…
Girls Of Summer, And Wines Of The Western Slopes
Hey, remember that trip I took to Colorado, as part of the 2012 Drink Local Wine Conference? That was in May, a mere couple of months though it feels more like fifteen years and several hundred grey hairs later for me, given how much time I’ve been spending prematurely aging myself through the rigors of…
Soon To Be A Cretin (Bound For Crete, Glossy Style?)
And you thought I was already there, didn’t you? About being a cretin, I mean. This week, I head out (yes, again) on the road, this time bound for the Greek island of Crete, a trip that’s been in the making in some way/shape/form with www.allaboutgreekwine.com since 2010 (we last discussed it when I visited…