07 Penley 'Condor' Shiraz Cabernet (Coonawarra): Really dig the smokey overtones. Don't really dig the prevalent berry soda action, though. # 08 Lander Jenkins 'Spirit Hawk' Chardonnay (CA): All is peachy with this crowd-pleaser – on the nose, on the palate, and on the wallet. # 07 Black Box Shiraz (Central Coast, CA): Rough around…
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Why You Need to be a Wine Twit
Remember Internet chat rooms? Sure you do – those were the simple, on-line places where you could converse, via written text-based messages, with other seemingly like-minded folks about an endless array of topics, ranging from politics to puppy grooming. Well, converse until the person on the other end asked “Are you a chick? are you…
Twitter Taste Live – Did Someone Say… Salta ?!?
Let’s get this straight right off the bat: the amount of ass that is being kicked right now by Twitter Taste Live is borderline-staggering. having been involved with TTL since its humble beginnings, it’s sometimes hard for me to conceive that TTL is barely over a year old, and it’s become the de facto on-line…
1WineDude in the L.A. Times (More on Wine Competition Controversy)
“One not only drinks wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it, and—one talks about it.” – King Edward VII of England If the events of the past several days are any indication, one also enters it into wine competitions, and then one talks – and talks, and talks – about the results!…