If you’ve ever wondered how to handle the delicate matter of telling a hoity-toity sommelier or wait staff that the wine you ordered isn’t up to snuff, without making one or both of you look like a total douchebag, you’re in luck because we tackle that very topic over at my latest Wined Down column…
Category: going pro
Wined Down: Manning Up To The Best Spirit For Wine Lovers
I often get asked if/when/how 1WineDude.com will start incorporating spirits and/or beer. For those of you who’ve asked me about that, or have thought about asking me about that, I give you the first two paragraphs of my latest Playboy.com Wined Down entry: “Question: What would Chuck Norris pour himself a glass of when he…
Interviewing Winemakers, Old Vines, And… Alpacas
So it’s not just you – I really have been popping up all over the place lately. In what was an odd but fun (there’s a fitting life summary, actually…) stretch for me, I was interviewed several times over the past several days, twice for radio (on WBAL’s The Sipping Point and The Wine Crush…
This Is Me Totally NOT Lightening Up On Wine And Social Media
Actually, it’s not social media and wine that I’m going to be talking about here – it’s social media and engagement. Engagement with actual people who actually spend their actual hard-earned cash for the purpose of drinking actual wine… It’s taken a while for me to respond to this plea for me to lighten up…