Here’s a question for you budding wine history buffs out there. To make it challenging, it’s in the form of an SSAT ‘association’ test question. You know, the ones you had in grade school, that were so odd that they presumably measured your ability to mimic the exact thinking process of the test question authors:…
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Are Wine Bloggers Insecure? (Hint: Not Quite…)
Are wine bloggers insecure? Wait a second… why are you asking? You trying to say I’m not any good?? Who the hell do you think you are, anyway, buck-o!!?!?? Ahem. Sorry about that. Seems that some topics can touch a bit of a nerve when it comes to blogging – especially wine blogging. You see,…
Back to My Roots: 3 Wine Lessons from a Magnum Opus (WBW #48)
This ultra-exciting edition of Tales of the Purple Monkey has Plumboo and I once again taking part in the Wine Blogging Wednesday blog carnival! Because it’s an anniversary edition of WBW, it’s being hosted this month by cool-guy and WBW founder Lenn Thompson at Lenndevours. I say “ultra-exciting” edition because Lenn’s theme has Plumboo and…
International Conflict and Wine: Georgia’s Treasures Under Fire
Just to bring a bit of palpable focus to the ongoing conflict in Georgia, I thought I’d highlight a few of the wine-related impacts of the fighting that is making worldwide news headlines: Georgia’s Caucasus region is widely believed to be the birthplace of wine, based on archeological findings of the oldest known cultivated vines….