A friend of mine, that talented writer David White, recently gave a speech at the 2011 Nederburg Auction in South Africa. The title of the talk: “The End of the Gatekeeper: How The Online Revolution is Revolutionizing Wine.” Forgiving the potential redundancy in the title (a revolution does have to revolutionize something, by definition, at…
Category: going pro
Vacation? What Vacation?!?? (Nine Days Under The Tuscan Sun)
I’m about to do something that I haven’t really done in about ten years. No, not drink a bunch of crappy, low-end Pinot Grigio. C’mon, I’m not insane here. No, I’m talking about taking a vacation. As in, a real vacation and not one in which I actually end up visiting something like 75 wine…
Are You Drinking Wine, Or Just Squashing Grapes?
Today we will speak of current NFL coaches, former baseball catching stars, and Jedi Master Yoda. And wine – almost forgot about the wine… See, I’ve been getting a little bit of flak over how publicly I’ve worn my NFL team allegiance colors on 1WD. And so, true to form, I’m going to go deeper…
Whose Ratings Should A Wine Drinker Pay Attention To?
Well… whose ratings should a wine drinker pay attention to? Or, stated with a tad more more grammatical correctness (warning: sounding-like-douche-bag-potential alert!), To Whose Ratings Should A Wine Drinker Pay More Attention? An American Association of Wine Economists (AAWE) working paper with that tile was just released, though, interestingly, it doesn’t actually answer the question. …