It’s baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack…! Wines of Germany will be launching their very own TasteLive.com events page, and to celebrate they will be kicking it off with a redux of the on-line live tasting that we’d originally scheduled for the end of October. I’ll be your blogger co-host for the on-line tasting, which will take place at 8PM…
Category: wine industry events
Totally Buzzed: 1WineDude.com Wins Best Wine Blog at Foodbuzz.com Blog Awards
Uhhmmmm… Whoa! I’m not usually at a loss for words (and I suspect that the condition is temporary and will wear off in a few nanoseconds), but my reaction to 1WineDude.com winning Best Wine Blog in the Foodbuzz.com Blog Awards is… uhmm…. WOW! And THANK YOU. Thank you to Foodbuzz, to all of the people…
Finding the Lost Grape of Bordeaux (Tasting With Chile’s Top Carmenere Winemakers)
Last week, I attended an on-line video conference / wine tasting that involved a handful of wine bloggers from around the U.S., as well as eight of Chile’s most talented young winemakers (congregated in Santiago), moderated by Wines of Chile in N.Y. While I’m used to this kind of cross-time-zone, cross-cultural meeting (as well as…
Carmenere: The Great Lost Grape of Bordeaux Gets A Troubled Chilean Makeover
This week just might mark a seminal event in my personal wine journey. Either that, or a huge, disappointing wine bust served up on a bed of bell pepper and pine needles. On November 4th, I’ll be taking part with a small group of bloggers in an on-line tasting event with Wines of Chile, the…