1WineDude.com readers are no strangers to Sommelier Journal, the wine mag with which I started a bit of a wine-geeky-info-love-affair back in 2008 (I’m a subscriber). You may also recall that last year I took SJ to task (tongue firmly in cheek, of course) for their Top Wine Releases of 2009 (as chosen by wine…
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Papa Don’t Preach (New Connoisseurs’ Guidebook to California Wine & Wineries)
Full disclosure: Charlie Olken, the driving force behind The Connoisseurs’ Guide to California Wine, is my dad. Not my biological father, mind you. In fact, he’s not related to me in any way; he’s not my adoptive father, either. It happened back in February: I was sitting at one of the evening dinner events at…
The World of The World of Fine Wine Magazine
I receive quite a bit of wine for which I pay nothing. I have never bothered to measure the volume of influx of wine samples to my door, but it is high enough that whenever the doorbell rings in the afternoon, my toddler daughter now exclaims “more boxes of wine, daddy!” Generally this volume of…
Whence Cometh Napa Cabernet?
Today I’ll be starting my week-long Napa excursion (the itinerary of which I’d hoped to have posted today, but since all those West Coast hippies are so damn laid back, as of the time of this writing my schedule still isn’t totally finalized… if I’d been dealing with uptight, anally-retentive East Coast types I would…