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Off the Beaten Path in Sonoma & Napa (or "KAZ & ACME Rock My Socks")
After finishing up at the first North American Wine Bloggers Conference last week in Santa Rosa, I took the Dude-le and hit the road for a few well-deserved appointments in Napa and Sonoma wine country. Don’t get me wrong, I…
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Portable vs Potable II: A Tetrapak Smackdown (or "Garbage In, Garbage Out")
In this exciting edition of Tales of the Purple Monkey, Plumboo (that’s the monkey) and I take on some wine samples provided in Tetrapak packaging. And narrowly survive! During the Wine Bloggers Conference earlier this week, one of the event…
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Some thoughts on Californian Wine (from Across the Pond – Guest Post)
Following is a guest post from Andrew Barrow, the brains behind the venerable (and excellent) wine & food site Spittoon.biz in the U.K. While we North American wine bloggers were toiling (aka drinking) away and working hard this week at…
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Garden Party: How To Keep Wine Blogging From Going Mainstream
So… I’m “freshly pressed,” so to speak (specifically in terms of palate fatigue and possible liver damage), from the first North American wine bloggers conference in Sonoma. Overall it was a fantastic event, about which I could pen a great…








