Sometimes, the wine sample pool giveth, sometimes the wine sample pool taketh away (usually it taketh away my hope), and sometimes – very rarely – the wine sample pool giveth and then giveth some more. Today’s focus is the latter; two Pinot Noir recent releases that are downright exceptional. Exceptional enough that I drank the…
Month: April 2016
No, That Oral Microbiota Study Did Not Invalidate The History Of Wine Tasting
Let’s start with the short version: we all need to calm the hell down. If social media reaction is any indication, the wine world is losing its shiz over the potential implications of an interesting study highlighted recently on The Academic Wino blog by Becca Yeamans-Irwin. Why we seem to go through this in April…
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For April 4, 2016
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available…
The Fiendish Plot (And Fiendishly Good Wine) of Dr. O. Fournier
[ Editor’s note: This piece was originally written for my old Playboy.com gig, was purchased, but due (I think) to staff turnover there, was never published. I’ve attempted multiple times to buy this back from PB, because I really liked how it turned out, but never heard back from them. So… I’m reprinting it here,…