During the recent Wine Bloggers Conference in Santa Barbara, I performed one of the more self-serving actions of my entire life (and that’s saying something, right there). During Corbett Barr’s keynote speech, I clapped deliberately and loudly when Barr told the conference-goers that the wine blogging community needs to do more to work together and…
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Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For August 4, 2014
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…
Same Old Song (Ridge Lytton Springs Recent Releases)
“We sing the same old songJust like a vintage car,You can look, but you won’t ever drive it.We drink the same old wineFrom a brand new jar,We get hung-over, but we always survive it.”– “New Song” by The Who Some tasks are just… unenviable. Take, for example, trying to say something new about iconic California…
Reviews (And Wine Labels) ‘R’ Us (Answers.com Wine Article Roundup, July 2014)
We wind down yet another summer month (a scorcher for me, since we spent a good portion of it without a working central AC system at 1WD HQ), and so we have another round of Wine.Answers.com article highlights for your reading pleasure. I was in full-on review mode this month, in an attempt to make…