A few days ago I published a somewhat controversial post giving you three reasons why you shouldn’t become a wine blogger. Now, I’m about to give you three reasons why you should wine blog. [Editor’s note: is ‘wine blog’ a verb now?] My intention is not to flip-flop a position. I’m just trying to give…
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Three Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Be a Wine Blogger
So… you wanna be a wine blogger, eh? [ Editor’s note: sorry, did not mean to sound Canadian there…]. Well, I’m here to tell ya NOT to do it. Now, before you flame me with nasty e-mails and comments, please bear in mind that I will be following up this post next week with three…
Stop Picking on Robert Parker (the Subjectivity of Wine Tasting)
You can all stop picking on Robert Parker now. The oft-followed and just as oft-maligned wine critic extraordinaire is doing you a favor. A favor if you, like him, have a wine palate that tends towards the bombastic, that is. A great post on the science of wine tasting over at Catavino.net (and how that…
The Price is Right? What Influences Wine Prices
How much is that bottle of wine in the window? Not that you’d want to buy wine that’s been sitting in a window for any extended period of time, since it’s probably baked from the exposure to all of that light and temperature variation. Anyway, I’m off to Chicago for a non-wine-related business trip. While…