I could tell that I wasn’t quite myself based on the number of business cards in my backpack. There were dozens of those little cards left, staring back at me when I opened my pack. Cards that I should have given away to friends old and new at the Wine Bloggers Conference in Walla Walla. …
Category: wine appreciation
Getting Crushed (at the Wine Crush Blog)
1WineDude.com has never (and will never) accept sponsored articles, which means that whatever you read on its virtual pages is purely the product of my somewhat deranged mind. I do need to feed my family, however, and so I have been taking some paid writing gigs on the side. One of those gigs has been…
Tasting A Legend: Going to Head-to-Head with Haut-Brion 1929
“A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.” – Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson had it right about special wines being eminently memorable, though he forgot to add the part about how wine tasting, like a hot date, owes so much to anticipation. And as much as I like to…
When Good Wines Go Bad: A Closer Look at Wine Flaws at Corkd.com
Put your high-school chemistry goggles on (you know, safety is paramount, right?) and join me today on Corkd.com for a look at the wine flaws. I’ve been asked by Cork’d to contribute to their Cork’d Content feature, which showcases original content from different wine bloggers each day on a variety of wine topics, with the…