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….
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The Trouble With Wine Ratings: Part 2
I’m glad to see that my post last week on the potential troubles with the 100 point wine rating system has spurred so much interesting dialog in the wine “blogosphere” (man, we really need another word for that…). Probably the most interesting conversation on this was triggered by Steve Heimoff’s response on his excellent Unreserved…
What the Heck Kind of Wine are You, Anyway? The Wrap-Up
Last week I played around with one of those kitschy on-line questionnaires, which, since it had to do with wine, I found not-so-kitschy anymore. The questionnaire/quiz was titled “What Kind of Wine are You?“, hosted at BlogThings.com, and the on-line wine geek community seems to have really taken to it, based on all of the…
What the Heck Kind of Wine are You, Anyway? An exercise in Blog Introspection
I’ve been doing a bit of introspection here at 1WineDude.com. Since this is a blog, the introspection has been performed entirely on-line, using two different tools that other wine bloggers have been dabbling with as well. So, no chance of my becoming a better person in the real world – this is virtual introspection, people….