It’s often said that imitation is flattery in its most sincere form. Imitation is also a way of making a quick buck, and in the case of wine has sometimes been used to dupe even the world’s most influential palates and wine writers. Counterfeiting, in the U.S. alone, is about a $200 billion a year…
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Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2009-08-08
08 Palo Alto Reserva Suavigon Blanc (Maule Valley): Good, but not great, w/ citrus fruit that's a tad green & disappears a bit too quickly. # 08 Palo Alto Reserva Red (Maule Valley): Very cheap & very good. Black fruit almost marred by toughness, but midpalate cherry saves the day. # 08 Trefethen Dry Riesling…
1WineDude TV Episode 6: The Bloggers of WBC 2009
Joe “interviews” some of the way-cool bloggers attending the 2009 Wine Bloggers Conference in Napa & Sonoma. We learn about wine battling monsters, smoking the hookah, and inappropriate cleavage shots. Oh, yeah, and wine. Cheers!
Do You Care About Wines You (Probably) Can’t Have?
Damn my over-processing brain. I was going to write about two wines that I tasted last week while I was in in Napa & Sonoma for the Wine Bloggers Conference… technically I was actually (sweltering) in Tacoma when I tasted them, but I received the wines in Napa & Sonoma… Anyway, I was going to…