We’re wrapping up 2013 for The Punch Down in an iconoclastic way (c’mon, what did you expect?!??), as we welcome author, educator, winemaker, musician, consultant, Vinovation founder and, yes, wine iconoclast Clark Smith as our guest on Episode 9 of The Punch Down! Smith has been ruffling feathers in the wine business since he dropped…
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Answers.com Wine Article Round-up (August 2013 Edition)
Here’s a (long-overdue) run down of some of my Answers.com Expert gig articles from August 2013, also known as “The Month That My Back Told Me To Go F—k Myself.” On the Chardonnay front: Inspired by a recent gig I did manning the social media ambassador duties for the 2013 Chardonnay Symposium (if you missed…
Results Of The 2013 Argentina Wine Awards
Last month, I was away in Mendoza playing Team America as an International judge in the 2013 Argentina Wine Awards. The AWAs were followed by a seminar that centered on the topic of how to reach “next generation” (Millennial) wine consumers. Today, I’m going to focus on the Trophy results of the AWAs – but…
Hourglass Recent Releases (Or, “Reports Of Napa’s Vintage From Hell Might Be Overblown”)
I, along with a small cadre of other wine media peeps, recently got invited to one of those on-line Q&A / sample tasting thangs highlighting recent releases from high-end Napa Valley producer Hourglass (so named due to the shape of their vineyard holdings, which form part of the narrowest spots in the North-South winegrowing continuum…