While I was in Portugal in May judging at the 2013 Wines of Portugal Challenge, I met a well-spoken and well-studied former Luftwaffe pilot named Axel Probst, who now provides one-on-one Port consultations (seriously, there’s a business for this in Europe, apparently). Axel looks every inch like an air force pilot: well-mannered, calm, fit, nice…
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The Waning Of The Wine Critic?
Earlier this month, I was a guest lecturer at a wine class for undergrads at Drexel University in downtown Philly. The class is taught by Jason Wilson (author of the very entertaining spirits book Boozehound and who somehow Id never met in Philly; it took a chance encounter at one of the Professional Wine Writers…
The 1WineDude.com Top 10 Most Interesting Wines Of 2011
It’s with great pleasure (and after a sh*tload of hard work, not to mention wine tastings) that I reveal the 2011 version of 1WineDude.com’s Most Interesting Wines Of The Year! The “competition” (such as it is, though it really isn’t such) was once again fierce, due to the volume of wines I tried in 2011…
Down With The Gatekeepers, Up With The Long Tail
A friend of mine, that talented writer David White, recently gave a speech at the 2011 Nederburg Auction in South Africa. The title of the talk: “The End of the Gatekeeper: How The Online Revolution is Revolutionizing Wine.” Forgiving the potential redundancy in the title (a revolution does have to revolutionize something, by definition, at…