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Ditch Your Wine Tasting "Training Wheels" (The Trouble With Wine Ratings, Part 3)
“Scores are like your training wheels – hopefully you take them off at some point.” – Joel Peterson I’ve never been a big fan of wine ratings or wine scoring systems. Mostly because I don’t know anyone who speaks in…
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…And They All Got Baked… (Wine Blogging Wednesday #51 Wrap-Up)
Wow. To say that I was impressed by the energy, turn out, and quality of the Wine Blogging Wednesday #51 participant posts would be an understatement. Sort of like saying that the Grand Canyon is a minor geological anomaly. That…
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Blind Tasting Smackdown: East Coast Vs. West Coast!
Actually, it’s not so much a smackdown as, it turns out, a comparison of apples and oranges. Or, a comparison of Old World style vs. New World style. After visiting both Opus One and Penns Woods Winery, located on the…
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Wine Blogging Wednesday #51: "Baked Goods"
Welcome to Wine Blogging Wednesday #51(WineDude)! Dude here is hosting the 51st edition of the venerable WBW, and today’s theme is “Baked Goods“ – reviews of wines that are deliberately heated (aka “Madeirized”), and we’re also allowing reviews of sweet…
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