Almost unbelievably, it’s time for the annual 1WD tradition of selecting The Most Interesting Wines of the Year. In some ways, with my back out of commission for nearly eight months, 2013 seemed like a long painful slog through semi-frozen sludge wearing nothing but flip-flops. But when it was on, 2013 was really *on*; it…
Category: Most Interesting Wines of the Year
The Ten Most Interesting Wines Of 2012
A vintage Sekt, a northern-Italian inspired Napa white blend, a Vintage Port from a sleeper of a producer in a not-so-sleeper of a year, and a single vineyard, old vine Chilean Malbec. All have taken the #1 spot in previous “vintages” of the 1WD Most Interesting Wines of the Year list. Believe it or not,…
The 1WineDude.com Top 10 Most Interesting Wines Of 2011
It’s with great pleasure (and after a sh*tload of hard work, not to mention wine tastings) that I reveal the 2011 version of 1WineDude.com’s Most Interesting Wines Of The Year! The “competition” (such as it is, though it really isn’t such) was once again fierce, due to the volume of wines I tried in 2011…
The 1WineDude.com Top Ten Most Interesting Wines of 2010
Here we go again! It’s time for the 1WineDude.com Top Ten Most Interesting Wines of the Year. As in previous years, the “competition” (such as it is) was fierce, in terms of both the volume of wine I tasted (now over a thousand, I think, based on some very crude estimation on my part) and…