Reading Corked: A Memoir, you may find that you don’t much like author Kathryn Borel. And it will probably have nothing to do with her being a Canadian (sorry, Canada… just poking fun at you because you won all of those Olympic hockey gold medals…). She is, by her own fearless admission, not the best…
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Wine Satan or Wine Savior? An Interview With Wine Trials Author Robin Goldstein
Depending on who you ask, Wine Trials author Robin Goldstein is either the wine world’s Satan, or the wine consumer’s Savior. Whether you feel that Goldstein’s powers are being used for good or evil, you can’t say that he harbors a fear of shaking things up. Goldstein became a polarizing figure in the wine world…
“Fun and Messy and Wonderful” – An Interview With Buehler Vineyards’ Helen Buehler
Earlier this month, a guest on Gary Vaynerchuk’s Wine Library TV caused a bit of a stir. That is, if you consider over 550 comments and an eight-page forum thread devoted to the episode “a bit of a stir.” The guest was Helen Buehler, who is a member of the family behind Buehler Vineyards, whose…
A Portrait of the Satirist as an Old Winemaker: An Interview with Bonny Doon’s Randall Grahm
To many people, the charismatic front-man of the iconic Boony Doon wine brands, Randall Grahm, is the Mad Hatter of the wine world. Once they read Randall’s recently-released book, Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vinthology, those same people will realize that they’re dead wrong. Randall Grahm is not the wine world’s Mad Hatter;…