08 Apothic Red (CA): Comes on sweet, finishes rough, but the middle is pure cranberry & chocolate, velvety Zin-ish fun. $14 B- # 09 Ramos Pinto Duas Quintas Reserva White (Douro): Lively, but you need to be into oak & vanilla cream to put this one on your list. $30 B- # Ramos Pinto Quinta…
Month: December 2010
The 1WineDude.com Top Ten Most Interesting Wines of 2010
Here we go again! It’s time for the 1WineDude.com Top Ten Most Interesting Wines of the Year. As in previous years, the “competition” (such as it is) was fierce, in terms of both the volume of wine I tasted (now over a thousand, I think, based on some very crude estimation on my part) and…
1WineDude TV Episode 23: Sharing the Wine Love (Going Pro in Porto)
I hope you’ll forgive the low production quality and complete lack of credits/intro/music in this vid – I’ve had a pretty difficult time trying to post this from Portugal (due in part to a busy schedule with few breaks, fewer Internet access points, and a rather massive laptop PC crash… the HORROR!). Anyway, I felt…
1WineDude Radio: The James Suckling Interview
Technically, this is actually Episode Three of my podcasts, but they’re running out of order. Because I feel like it. Anyway, my strong suspicion is that today’s interview with James Suckling (formerly, of course, from Wine Spectator) is going to generate a lot of discussion. Like Robert Parker, Suckling is a bit of a polarizing…