Inspired in part by El Bloggo Torcido’s Take Your Rubber Chicken to Work Day, as well as Jill’s plans to introduce a plush toy version of her wine bottle mascot at domaine547 – and, to be more honest, to give myself an excuse to play with my baby daughter’s plush toys – I give you…
Category: wine review
WBW #43: Dude’s Comfort Wine (or How I Survived My Brother’s Heart Surgery)
For Wine Blogging Wednesday #43 (this round hosted over at the fine WineLifeToday blog), we’ve been asked to review a “Comfort Wine” – and to explain why, like a good comfort food, this wine evokes some special, relaxing, or good-ol’-down-home feeling for us. First, let’s start with my comfort wine. Then I’ll lay the story…
My Readers are Smarter, More Talented, and More Attractive than Me (Reader Haiku)
(image: dailyzen.com)It’s official. 1WineDude.com readers are smarter, funnier, more talented, and in all likelihood more attractive than I am. I say this because: I am arguably an impish gnome with a half-baked palate trying to earn an honest living from near-constant drinking (curse you, Zane Lamprey – you stole my job!), and I have received…
The Official 1WineDude Wine “Mini-Reviews” Page (published via twitter)
In January of 2008, I began to get into the Wine 2.0 conversation and started to post wine reviews on twitter. For those of you not familiar with twitter, it’s essentially a ‘micro-blogging’ platform that allows you to post short updates about what’s happening in your life. And when I say short, I mean it…