This week finds me in Paso Robles, courtesy of the Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance, presumably because you folks don’t get enough images of beautiful vineyard locations coupled with smarmy captions here on 1WineDude.com, so we need a trip to get you some more, you greedy little things! I’ll be taking part in what they…
Month: October 2011
Vinography Goes All British On Us (Alder Yarrow Joins Team Jancis At JancisRobinson.com)
[ Editor’s note: No, you’re not losing your mind (well, not that I can tell anyway) – the following was originally posted here yesterday, but I was mistakenly a day early in reporting it (and the authors of the press release politely requested that I take it down and re-post today to coincide with the…
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For October 15, 2011
Uhm, like what is this stuff? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be fun, quickly-and-easily-digestible reviews. Below is a wrap-up of the twitter reviews from the past week…
Medieval Secrets: Ancient Walls, Modern Winemaking in Chianti’s Castello di Volpaia
When you’re dealing with the wine biz on a consistent basis, there’s one thing you get to see a whole lot of (besides wine, Styrofoam, and cardboard, I mean): Stainless steel tanks. Everybody who produces wine wants to show you their steel tanks. Wine people are obsessed with their steel tanks; they basically have total…