(images: allposters.com, paddlinginstructor.com, 4hisglory.wordpress.com, dogchannel.com) Let’s face it. There are just some situations where our favorite pastime – drinking the vino – just isn’t appropriate. Religious retreats, Amish barn-raisings, and Rehab all come to mind. Think that because you can’t imbibe the vino, you’re missing out on opportunities to up your Wine IQ? Wrong, Jack!…
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A Spy In the House of Booze: How to Survive an Industry Wine Tasting
(images: tenaciously.smugmug.com) Booth babes. Row upon row of free alcohol to sample, some of it top notch. Hobnobbing with local wine celebs (e.g., Marnie Old). Man, the lengths I will go to give me readers a decent story! I was recently (in Q4 2007) asked by a local restaurant / wine bar to help them…
Happy Birthday 1WineDude.com (Dude’s Greatest Hits)
1WineDude.com quietly turns 1 year old today! I say quietly, because 1) I prefer intimate birthday parties, and 2) while this blog is technically 1 year old, it’s only really been‘all-grows-up’ since October 2007, when Dude started “taking this blogging thing a bit more seriously,” as they say. Not sure exactly who ‘they’ are, but…
20 Things About Life I’ve Learned From Drinking Wine
(images: davidzinger.wordpress.com, elsnoozo.blogspot.com, history.com, aceface.com) It’s been said in some Eastern traditions that to be born a human is a rare event. To be a human and to question the source of life (to become a Seeker) is rarer still. And rarest of all is to seek and find your guru, the way to enlightenment….