ARTICLES
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Ode to a Wine Teacher
I could tell that I wasn’t quite myself based on the number of business cards in my backpack. There were dozens of those little cards left, staring back at me when I opened my pack. Cards that I should have…
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Antithesis: A study in Extreme Serendipitous Winemaking
“I almost named the wine Serendipity because I discovered the technique which produces this wine by pure accident.” This is a story that I’ve been chomping at the bit to tell for months. It’s the kind of story that makes…
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Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! (Brought to you by the Letter “W”)
That about sums it up: THANK YOU! I’ve just returned from Walla Walla, WA where I was both a panelist and attendee at the 2010 Wine Bloggers Conference. As if that sentence didn’t contain enough Ws for you, I also…
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Brave New World (or “Do We Really Need Wine Experts Anymore?”)
Just over one month ago, I was quoted in an (excellent and well-written) article by Spencer Bailey of the Columbia Journalism Review, titled “Everyone’s the Wine Expert: Wine critics and bloggers, professional and amateur, are mixed up in a social…








