07 Chateau Pineraie Malbec (Cahors): The berries are red, the booze is hot, the brett is funky, & the finish is bittahhhhh. €7 C+ # 09 Chateau Quattre (Cahors): Aparently, hard limestone soils worked by long-standing producers equates to explosive red fruit goodness. €6 B # 08 Rigal Les Terrasses (Cahors): After the supple mouthfeel…
Month: May 2010
Cahors Malbec Days Festival: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The International Malbec Days Festival (May 20th-23rd, 2010 in Cahors, France) is now behind us. Let’s take the Good, Bad and (in some cases, the very) Ugly of the festival, in reverse order: The Ugly: Event Coordination and “Wines that Smell of Donkey Poop” Organizing and executing a wine industry event the size of the…
Vote Dude (Maybe) In the 2010 Wine Blog Awards – But At Least Just Vote
OK, so there’s this Wine Blog Awards thing going on right now. Maybe you’ve heard of it? I’m honored that 1WineDude.com has been included as a finalist by the eleven secret judges – supposedly secret so that we couldn’t bribe them I guess, but then that’s illogical since by definition we wine bloggers don’t make…
Aussie Wine: The Survey
Got another survey comin’ at ya – this time, it’s not from a Masters of Wine student, but from a student in a Masters of Wine Business program in Adelaide Australia. Said student is a guy named Jeffrey Williams, originally from NY but now doing some U.S.-based market research on the on-premise perceptions of Australian…