wine book
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Wine Scores On Trial (The Wine Trials 2011 Robin Goldstein Interview)
He’s baaaaaaaaaaaack. Robin Goldstein, who shook the wine world’s foundations in 2008 when he won Wine Spectator’s restaurant Award of Excellence after creating a fictitious restaurant whose wine list included some of their lowest-scoring Italian wines in the past two decades (triggering one of the…
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Papa Don’t Preach (New Connoisseurs’ Guidebook to California Wine & Wineries)
Full disclosure: Charlie Olken, the driving force behind The Connoisseurs’ Guide to California Wine, is my dad. Not my biological father, mind you. In fact, he’s not related to me in any way; he’s not my adoptive father, either. It happened back in February: I…
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Brave New World of Wine: the 1WineDude Mark Oldman Interview
I like wine (duh). I also favor, and am often drawn to, personalities that are high-energy, engaging or highly-knowledgeable about their fields of expertise. No surprise, then, that I consider Mark Oldman one of the most dynamic – and one of the best – wine…
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Should America’s Native Grapes Be Saved? (The Wild Vine Giveaway!)
This week, we’re giving away a hardcover copy of Todd Kliman’s excellent The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine (of which I received more than one sample copy) to one lucky commenter (that could be YOU). I should start…
