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California wine, crowd pleaser wines, elegant wines, kick-ass wines, on the road, sexy wines, wine reviewWorking Hard To Change Nothing (Williams Selyem Recent Releases)
There was so much that I didn’t want to like about Sonoma’s storied Williams Selyem. The too-cool-for-school exclusivity of their mailing list. The imposing fortress-like facade of their “barrel-evoking” tasting room and its “wall of bottles.” The fact that they…
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Vote Naked (Naked Wines Winemaker Fantasy Finalists 2016)
Pssst! Hey! Wanna vote Naked? I was recently a judge for a contest that Naked Wines is running, in which winemakers made video pitches describing what fantasy/dream wine they would create if they had an extra $100Gs laying around (for…
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Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For June 27, 2016
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to…
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Hey, Wine Ladies! Take The Power Back!
How many of you caught the recent diatribes by both Guy Woodward (of Harpers) and Monika Elling (of Foundations Marketing Group in New York City) regarding the under-representation of women in the wine biz? This quote from Elling summarizes the…
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