He’s baaaaaaaaaaaack. Robin Goldstein, who shook the wine world’s foundations in 2008 when he won Wine Spectator’s restaurant Award of Excellence after creating a fictitious restaurant whose wine list included some of their lowest-scoring Italian wines in the past two decades (triggering one of the most heated public debates of the year in the wine…
Category: interviews
The Myths of the Palate: An Interview with Tim Hanni, MW
Master of Wine and Certified Wine Educator Tim Hanni has been lighting up the on-line wine world this week. More specifically, what’s been lighting up the wine world is the release of a report of highlights from a study of wine consumer taste preferences that Tim has co-authored with Virginia Utermohlen, MD. Titled “Beverage preferences…
Brave New World of Wine: the 1WineDude Mark Oldman Interview
I like wine (duh). I also favor, and am often drawn to, personalities that are high-energy, engaging or highly-knowledgeable about their fields of expertise. No surprise, then, that I consider Mark Oldman one of the most dynamic – and one of the best – wine educators in the world, since he’s got it going on…
1WineDude TV Episode 18: Wine Preservation on the Cheap (Wine Secrets with Marnie Old)
She Said “Freeze!,” He Said “Wow. Really?!?” In this (long overdue!) episode of 1WineDude TV, I (briefly) interview (the very tall) Marnie Old, Philly’s first lady of wine and co-author (with Dogfish Head’s extreme beer maven Sam Calagione) of He Said Beer, She Said Wine: Impassioned Food Pairings to Debate and Enjoy: from Burgers to…