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…
Category: wine review
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…
Wine Blogging Wednesday #47: Brought to You by the Letter ‘S’
Welcome to the latest edition of Tales of the Purple Monkey! This month’s Wine Blogging Wednesday blog carnival has Plumboo and I contemplating the theme: “Wines Brought to You by the letter S.” Like a fine wine grape, that one is just ripe for interpretation! Finding a wine that starts with the letter S was…
May I Be Franc With You (WBW #44 – French Cab Franc Review)
(images: nysaes.cornell.edu, artsci.wustl.edu, merchantwines.com) This edition of Tales of the Purple Monkey has Plumboo and I tasting a French Cabernet Franc, as part of Wine Blogging Wednesday #44. This WBW theme comes to us courtesy of the irrepressible Gary V. over at Wine Library TV. Before Plumboo and I head of to Chinon in France’s…