I am getting increasingly STOKED about the upcoming Wine Future 2023 conference (held November 7-9 in Coimbra, Portugal). This is, of course, in no small part due to the fact that I will be on stage at Wine Future 2023 with none other than F–KING ROCK LEGEND Bruce Dickinson of F–KING Iron Maiden. I just…
Month: August 2023
Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for August 28, 2023
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 in a “mini-review” format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to read…
Yo Yo YO Sannio! (A Sannio Campania Deep Dive in Philly)
A few months ago, I braved the utter hellishness of I-76 rush hour traffic (along with several other fine Philadelphia-area wine pro folks) to attend a media dinner at the venerable Old City restaurant Panorama. The star attraction? Wines from Italy’s Sannio DOC in Campania. Sannio was awarded DOC status in the 1990s, though its…
Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for August 21, 2023
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 in a “mini-review” format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to read…