I’m very happy to tell you that I’ll be providing the weekly wine Quiz in The Juice newsletter, a customizable update on wine events distributed by the venerable LocalWineEvents.com. The first month’s quizzes will focus on trivia about Champagne, in the hopes that it will help lighten the serious hangover that the stuff gave you…
Category: going pro
Going Pro: Wrapping Up 14+ Years
As of the end of this week, I’m unemployed! Well, unemployed in the traditional sense, anyway. Those of you who’ve been following along with my (now well-protracted) endeavor to Go Pro in the wine biz are probably (and not without good reason) rolling your eyes and muttering “finally… it’s about time…” It only took me…
A Love-Letter To Wine PR Folks. Sort Of.
Since causing a minor sh*t-storm on Facebook a week ago when I lamented publicly about bad wine PR folks wanting me to “guarantee” reviews of their clients’ wine samples (with responses ranging from “cut them some slack, they have a difficult job” to “screw ‘em, they’re all idiots), I’ve gotten to thinking about the whole…
The Most Wanted’s 100 Essential Blogs: (Early?) Christmas Edition
Last week, my little old hunk of the global interwebs was named one of the Best Wine Blogs in in the 2011 installment of Most Wanted’s 100 Essential Blogs: Christmas Edition. I’m honored to have been included, because their other blog selections are all great so I find myself dragging down the curve of the…