I don’t want to say that every aspect of my life is firing high on all cylinders right now, because that’s not the case. BUT … when you get sent to one of the most beautiful places on the globe to try excellent wines, work hard, then play hard, and get paid well to be…
Category: kick-ass wines
A Few Hundred Bucks Worth Of Cult California Cab, Definitely Not Made By Metallica Roadies (Tanner Dafoe Recent Releases)
Question: What do you get when you cross a law-school trained producer of films and commercials with a former professional mountain snowboarder? Anyone??? In the case of Tanner Dafoe (named after Jeff Tanner and Rob DaFoe, the producer and snowboarder, respectively), you get some fairly complete and substantial Cabernet Sauvignon priced like the California cult…
Turn Up The Piiiiiinot (IPNC 2014 Alfresco Tasting Highlights)
As you read this, I’ll be in Hungary, a trip of which half is a curated media tour, and half a working stint doing video interview stuff that I will discuss later, but about which I am particularly excited (not just because it’s a paying gig, but also because it involves one of my personal…
Siduri Single Vineyard Recent Releases
Earlier this week, we got into the head of the rabble-rousing guy behind the Siduri label, Adam Lee. That interview turned out to be too interesting for me to edit significantly, and so I decided to take advantage of the online format’s theoretically limitless space and publish as much of it as I could. But…