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Wine 1.7rc3 (Why Wine 2.0 Isn’t Quite There… Yet)
Web 2.0 – the two-fer, el internet dos, the big web deuce. You understand it totally, right? Me neither! Good – that means we can embark on this here post together without any pretense… you know, we don’t have to…
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The Summer of Wine’s Discontent (or "What Wine Can Learn From Beer")
The wine world probably won’t miss the Summer of `08. That’s because the Summer of `08 seems like wine’s Season of Discontent. A fictitious restaurant won an Award of Excellence from long-running wine institution Wine Spectator; Wine Spectator’s response, posted…
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An Open Letter to (Busty) California Winemakers
To Whom It May Concern: I’ve just polished off another 1/2 of a bottle of your tasty, 14.5% abv wines… in fact, I’m pretty sure that even though it said 14.5% on the elegant bottle, it was probably closer to…
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Tales of the Purple Monkey: Bye-Bye Bush
This way-cool special edition of Tales of the Purple Monkey has Plumboo and I not tasting or reviewing any wine whatsoever! Participating as we do in the ongoing monthly wine blogger carnival Wine Blogging Wednesday, the Purple Monkey and I…
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