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…
Category: wine review
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…
Day For Night (Two Bright Stars From The High End Of The Sample Pool)
“Why you want to keep trying? You never get it right When you could be living day for night Live my dream There’s no dancing in between Why not let it go?” – “Day for Night” by Spock’s Beard Quite often, I find myself delving into the wine sample pool and coming up empty. Not…