(images: tenaciously.smugmug.com) Booth babes. Row upon row of free alcohol to sample, some of it top notch. Hobnobbing with local wine celebs (e.g., Marnie Old). Man, the lengths I will go to give me readers a decent story! I was recently (in Q4 2007) asked by a local restaurant / wine bar to help them…
Happy Birthday 1WineDude.com (Dude’s Greatest Hits)
1WineDude.com quietly turns 1 year old today! I say quietly, because 1) I prefer intimate birthday parties, and 2) while this blog is technically 1 year old, it’s only really been‘all-grows-up’ since October 2007, when Dude started “taking this blogging thing a bit more seriously,” as they say. Not sure exactly who ‘they’ are, but…
Book Review: Vino Italiano (The Regional Wines of Italy)
This post, the Dude is offering his review of Joseph Bastianich’s & David Lynch’s weighty tome on all things Italo-wine-related: Vino Italiano. My review is part of a larger blog-carnival-type effort with near-simultaneous reviews of the same book happening at other wine blogs, called the Wine Book Club. You can check out some of the…
Weekly Wine Web Wrap-Up: After the Storm Edition
Greetings from PA, where we are digging out after a bout of winter weather; not the worst we’ve seen by a long shot, but the first significant winter storm we’ve seen all season – very, very late for these parts. I’m not going to jump the gun and blame global warming just yet… but… you…