Before you flame me, Yes, I am already aware of the irony of today’s title. I realize that some of you might have been trapped for the last several days under your collapsed wine racks and several hundred bottles of your collected vino. Or maybe you are just coming off a severe wine bender, Rip…
Category: wine news
The Single Most Important Piece Of Wine News In Decades Is…
…This. No, I’m not kidding. The fact that the Australian Wine Research Institute researches have sequenced the Brettanomyces genome is, potentially, the single most important piece of news to hit the wine world since it was discovered that malolactic fermentation could be controlled. In terms of newsworthy impact, it makes Scarecrow’s busting of the Premiere…
Tangled Up In Tunes (Music’s Effect On Our Perception Of Wine)
I’ve been playing around with on-line music-and-cocktails-matching entertainment app Drinkify, and have concluded via completely non-scientific means that it is almost a total failure (at least, when it comes to one pairing in particular). It’s fun, don’t get me wrong; it’s just that it offers me the booze-pairing “beer” (I use that term loosely) suggestion…
The Most Wanted’s 100 Essential Blogs: (Early?) Christmas Edition
Last week, my little old hunk of the global interwebs was named one of the Best Wine Blogs in in the 2011 installment of Most Wanted’s 100 Essential Blogs: Christmas Edition. I’m honored to have been included, because their other blog selections are all great so I find myself dragging down the curve of the…