A note to musically-inclined wine people: if you help the nice folks at Claypool Cellars pick their consulting winemaker, eventually you’ll get to hang backstage at kick-ass Primus concerts. And while that might at first sound like a raging conflict of interest, I suppose it’s worth noting that a) that hasn’t stopped me from telling…
Category: on the road
A Hungarian With Serious Stones (István Szepsy Recent Releases)
István Szepsy… …is a Hungarian man with serious stones. And he will gladly show them to you, if you ask. Actually, I think he might show them to you even if you don’t ask. He has them laid out on his front porch; dozens of them, organized by 21 different dulo (basically akin to climat)….
Dispatch From Subterranean Hungarian Haunts (Tokaji Kereskedőház Zrt. 1972 Aszú 5 Puttonyos)
I don’t want to say that every aspect of my life is firing high on all cylinders right now, because that’s not the case. BUT … when you get sent to one of the most beautiful places on the globe to try excellent wines, work hard, then play hard, and get paid well to be…
Turn Up The Piiiiiinot (IPNC 2014 Alfresco Tasting Highlights)
As you read this, I’ll be in Hungary, a trip of which half is a curated media tour, and half a working stint doing video interview stuff that I will discuss later, but about which I am particularly excited (not just because it’s a paying gig, but also because it involves one of my personal…