I know what you’re thinking: Man, I really hope that today’s 1WineDude post somehow combines the Acura Integra, InfoTech department payroll practices, farm animals, Lord of the Rings, marijuana, and estate-grown California Syrah! What can I say? Who loves ya, baby?!? On second thought, I might have painted myself into a serious blogging corner here……
Category: wine review
An Average Wine Dude vs. Chateau d’Yquem
“…like a Viennese waltz in my mouth…” Thus read the words of CellarTracker.com member Kdawg, in his (her?) New Year’s Eve 2007 tasting note of a 1995 Château d’Yquem. For those who don’t yet know about CellarTracker, it’s a veritable institution in the on-line wine world, offering on-line wine management and community tasting notes. I…
Southern Hospitality? (Sampling VA’s Loudoun County Wineries)
Virginia, as the marketing slogan goes, is for Lovers. VA may soon be for wine lovers, especially if you’re fond of Old World style Cabernet Franc. VA is not necessarily for wine writers, however. Those are the tidbits of knowledge that I came away with anyway, after touring a handful of Loudoun County wineries with…
Do You Care About Wines You (Probably) Can’t Have?
Damn my over-processing brain. I was going to write about two wines that I tasted last week while I was in in Napa & Sonoma for the Wine Bloggers Conference… technically I was actually (sweltering) in Tacoma when I tasted them, but I received the wines in Napa & Sonoma… Anyway, I was going to…