For Wine Blogging Wednesday #43 (this round hosted over at the fine WineLifeToday blog), we’ve been asked to review a “Comfort Wine” – and to explain why, like a good comfort food, this wine evokes some special, relaxing, or good-ol’-down-home feeling for us. First, let’s start with my comfort wine. Then I’ll lay the story…
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My Readers are Smarter, More Talented, and More Attractive than Me (Reader Haiku)
(image: dailyzen.com)It’s official. 1WineDude.com readers are smarter, funnier, more talented, and in all likelihood more attractive than I am. I say this because: I am arguably an impish gnome with a half-baked palate trying to earn an honest living from near-constant drinking (curse you, Zane Lamprey – you stole my job!), and I have received…
The Official 1WineDude Wine “Mini-Reviews” Page (published via twitter)
In January of 2008, I began to get into the Wine 2.0 conversation and started to post wine reviews on twitter. For those of you not familiar with twitter, it’s essentially a ‘micro-blogging’ platform that allows you to post short updates about what’s happening in your life. And when I say short, I mean it…
WBW #42 – Seven Word Wine Review (Banfi Rosso di Montalcino)
This month’s edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday comes to us courtesy of Spitton.biz, who have tasked the collective talents of the budding wine blogging community by asking us to review an Italian Red, using just seven words. Tricky, to say the least (get it?); especially for those of us whose prose, how shall I put…