Holy crap! I was greeted by a very pleasant surprise today when I ventured over to the Foodbuzz.com Blog Awards to vote for a few friends of mine whose blogs were nominated in various award categories. That’s when I first noticed that the following category even existed, and did a super-fast-head-fake-double-take upon seeing the list…
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A Portrait of the Satirist as an Old Winemaker: An Interview with Bonny Doon’s Randall Grahm
To many people, the charismatic front-man of the iconic Boony Doon wine brands, Randall Grahm, is the Mad Hatter of the wine world. Once they read Randall’s recently-released book, Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vinthology, those same people will realize that they’re dead wrong. Randall Grahm is not the wine world’s Mad Hatter;…
Meet The New Wine Expert: You!
I have seen the future of wine criticism, wine dialog, and wine expertise. Wanna see it? Great – go look in the mirror. Because the future wine experts look an awful lot like you. You look great, by the way – did you cut your bangs? A little over a week ago, Slate.com ran a…
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2009-10-03
06 Harney Lane Lizzy James Viney'd Old Vine Zinfandel (Lodi): There's you, there's the dried cherry, but what's with the 3% Petite Sirah? # 06 Bonny Doon CA' Del Solo Sangiovese (San Benito County): It might be cherry Rock, but it's Funk-infused cherry Rock (& a bargain to boot). # 08 Torbreck Cuvee Juveniles (Barossa…