My friend, fellow wine competition judge, and colleague (sorry, bro!) Michael Cervin recently asked me to offer up a comment or two (I agreed to do so on the record) for a piece he was writing for The Tasting Panel magazine, focusing on how (or if) political leanings impacted the wine business. Michael published a…
Category: wine publications
Aces In The Hole (A Nizza DOCG Deep-dive For MyNameIsBarbera.com)
The latest article in my storytelling Monferrato journey is now available over at MyNameIsBarbera.com, and in it we take a deeper dive directly into the terroir (and I mean down to the dirt level!) of the venerable Nizza DOCG. Those of you who have been following along with my Northern Italian antics might recall that…
Dropping The Mic On Online Wine ROI (TMRW Engine’s 2016 Digital Wine Report)
So much of the material upon which 1WD was built consists, essentially, of opinion pieces (in fact, four or five years ago I sat on a panel focused specifically on opinion writing alongside Lettie Teague and Jon Bonne, about which I imagine both of whom are still scratching their heads). But over the years, I’ve…
Why You Should Care When The Clock Strikes Wine O’Clock (Thoughts On The Enolytics 2016 Report)
My first reaction to the recently-published study/synopsis on “Wine O’Clock” issued by the new firm Enolytics: Well… yeah… no sh*t! My second reaction to the recently-published study/synopsis on “Wine O’Clock” issued by the new firm Enolytics: Wait… holy crap! This is actually important (and I am an idiot)! At first blush, you might have the…
