Remember Internet chat rooms? Sure you do – those were the simple, on-line places where you could converse, via written text-based messages, with other seemingly like-minded folks about an endless array of topics, ranging from politics to puppy grooming. Well, converse until the person on the other end asked “Are you a chick? are you…
Month: September 2009
Twitter Taste Live – Did Someone Say… Salta ?!?
Let’s get this straight right off the bat: the amount of ass that is being kicked right now by Twitter Taste Live is borderline-staggering. having been involved with TTL since its humble beginnings, it’s sometimes hard for me to conceive that TTL is barely over a year old, and it’s become the de facto on-line…
1WineDude in the L.A. Times (More on Wine Competition Controversy)
“One not only drinks wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it, and—one talks about it.” – King Edward VII of England If the events of the past several days are any indication, one also enters it into wine competitions, and then one talks – and talks, and talks – about the results!…
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2009-09-05
87 Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia (Tuscany): Cannonball shot of dark fruit awesomeness to your gut. Exit wound leaves huge hole in your wallet. # 08 Domaine Tempier Rosé (Bandol): A strawberry patch surrounded by a spice garden, with an olive chaser. Dry as a bone. Worth the coin. # 07 Karl Erbes Ürziger Würzgarten Riesling…