I love writing about wine. And I often encourage people who love wine to blog about it, since it’s so easy to set-up a blog, and it’s such a great way to record your thoughts, feelings, and observations as you travel your own personal ‘wine journey’. Sometimes, when a wine lover that I know gets…
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Faked Out? (Tales of a Possibly Faked Wine)
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…
Anthony dias Blue Goes on the Attack Against Wine Bloggers
Here we go again. I don’t know why wine writing icons feel compelled lately to disparage wine bloggers as a whole, but it seems that the venerable Anthony dias Blue is joining Robert Parker in painting all wine bloggers with an overly broad and negative brush. As in the case of Parker’s blogger diatribe, by…
California, Cat Piss, Saints & Twitter (or “Joe vs. Napa Sauvignon Blanc”)
By all accounts, the is past Saturday’s Twitter Taste Live! event, featuring selections from Napa Valley stalwart St. Supery, was a big success. Some estimates on the event put the number of twitter event posts at greater than 700 (I’ve not seen any definitive statistics yet), which would likely make it the biggest TTL event…