I don’t mean here that if you lick a wine expert (something I do not recommend, unless you happen to be Heidi Klum and the wine expert you plan on tasting is me) they taste like chocolate-covered hazelnut while you taste like a dog coming out of the rain. I mean, are wine experts hard-wired…
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This Is Me Totally NOT Lightening Up On Wine And Social Media
Actually, it’s not social media and wine that I’m going to be talking about here – it’s social media and engagement. Engagement with actual people who actually spend their actual hard-earned cash for the purpose of drinking actual wine… It’s taken a while for me to respond to this plea for me to lighten up…
Meet Playboy.com’s New Dot Com Wine Dude
Yep. Really. I’m crazy excited to tell you that I will soon be authoring a freelance wine column on Playboy.com. So now you have some legitimacy behind the “I’m just going there for the articles, honey!” excuse (you’re welcome!). The folks behind Playboy.com reached out to me many moons ago, and the whole thing has…
Stop Hating On Pinotage, Already
Seriously. Stop hating on Pinotage. Why? Because there’s nothing “wrong” with it. I am here today to tell you that Pinotage is not bad; it is simply different. And if you don’t like this oft-maligned but more-oft-misunderstood South African cross between Pinot noir and Cinsaut, that’s your prerogative. Just stop drinking it and shut about…