Here’s a question for you budding wine history buffs out there. To make it challenging, it’s in the form of an SSAT ‘association’ test question. You know, the ones you had in grade school, that were so odd that they presumably measured your ability to mimic the exact thinking process of the test question authors:…
Category: wine review
Back to My Roots: 3 Wine Lessons from a Magnum Opus (WBW #48)
This ultra-exciting edition of Tales of the Purple Monkey has Plumboo and I once again taking part in the Wine Blogging Wednesday blog carnival! Because it’s an anniversary edition of WBW, it’s being hosted this month by cool-guy and WBW founder Lenn Thompson at Lenndevours. I say “ultra-exciting” edition because Lenn’s theme has Plumboo and…
Winery Spotlight: J Vineyards (& the Rise of Winery Blogging)
Not too long ago, I was contacted by a PR firm regarding one of their wineries, J Vineyards. This is nothing to write about in and of itself. What is worth writing about is why they were reaching out to me. As a wine blogger, they wanted me to know that J had launched their…
The Trouble With Wine Ratings (an Introduction to the 89 Project)
Excellence. You deserve it. You demand it. It haunts you. It drives you. It’s so Powerful. It makes you. Speak. In Broken. Sentences. We’re obsessed with comparing things when we make purchases, especially in the U.S. Some of us are always out there looking for the best. Even in today’s excellence-obsessed status-quo-chasing society, no one…