It’s not often that one receives three small (187 ml) aluminum shatterproof bottles of French wine in the mail. Even for someone who is used to getting media samples of wine, this was a first. So when a package arrived for me from Volute Wine, containing three bottles of their new “single-serve premium wine” from…
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Dude, Where Are The Ratings?
Simple – there aren’t any. Next question. Ok, well maybe it’s not that simple, actually. Astute 1WineDude.com readers have pointed out that I have yet to clearly explain my wine rating system; or, more accurately, my lack of a wine rating system. So… I will try to explain it but bear with me, because while…
Twisted Wine for Twisted Times
Sit back, relax, and prepare for the unfolding of a twisted, Twisted Tale… It was a dark and stormy night. Actually, no, it wasn’t – it was one of those brilliant summer evenings when breeze is just strong and cool enough that it feels like a waft of heaven when you open up all the…
89 Bottles of Wine on the Wall… (An Update on the "89 Project")
It’s been one month since I posted about the 89 Project, the brainchild of 2 Days Per Bottle‘s David Honig. I figured it was time for a check in to see how the little guy was faring! You might recall from my previous post (the one that Wine Enthusiast’s Steve Heimoff, bless his soul, interpreted…