“Did we really tell lies Letting in the sunshine Did we really count to one hundred?” – Jon Anderson, Long Distance Runaround If you’ve been on the “global interwebs” for any appreciable amount of time, and you like wine, you’ll already be familiar with the Wine Century Club. If not, here’s a short primer: the…
Category: wine appreciation
The Punking of Wine’s High Priests
Before I get into the topic of today’s post (which, I’ll tell you now for future reference is “why and how even preeminent wine authorities can be duped”), I first need to give you some background on the world of wine fraud. A few years ago I was on a business trip to Russia (before…
Wine Rocks (Is Wine Appreciation Becoming Cool?)
Well… duh, right? Anyone that has spent more than a cursory glance through the (virtual) pages of 1WineDude (or has had the unfortunate experience of sharing a long car ride with me when I’m driving, which of course entitles me to choose the music played on the car stereo) is familiar with my affinity for…
Earth, Wine And Fire… and Wine Lists
Shall we explore the world of restaurant wine lists, while interpolating the badassness of Earth Wind & Fire in the process? What the hell, why not? First, we can establish the baddassness of EWF right away – that’s easy: They funked, singing harmonies in octaves that would require most people to otherwise suck helium to…