Master of Wine and scientist Benjamin Lewin’s non-fiction book What Price Bordeaux has a title that, unlike many non-fictional works, is meant to convey a series of meanings or themes that are touched on at some point in the body of the work itself. In this case, What Price Bordeaux refers, at turns, to The…
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Wine Gives Back: Relief for Haiti and Chilean Wine Workers
A few tidbits to end the week on some hopeful notes: Palate Press Kicks Ass for Haiti Relief Mad props are due to on-line wine e-zine Palate Press for their efforts (mostly spearheaded by yeoman David Honig, its Publisher) to raise money for the Red Cross’ Haiti Relief & Development activities. David organized a stellar…
Wine Bullsh*t Bingo (and other tidbits)
Here’s one for the “it’s NOT just me” department: Remember last week, when I jokingly poked fun (or, as my friends in the U.K. would say, “took the piss out of”) the current state of California vintage reports? Well, most of the people who left comments and contacted me via twitter, facebook, and e-mail took…
Happier Times = Less Wine? (Will A Better Economy Mean Fewer Wine Blogs?)
I have a theory. And it’s one that I hope will be proven totally false. My theory is that the economy will get better, and it will rebound to more solid ground relatively soon-ish (within two years). That’s not the part that I hope is proven false, by the way. I’m getting to that. So…