Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of dining with fellow wine-geek and wine-blogger David McDuff and his wife at the center of my Asian-fusion culinary universe, Teikoku. Aside from generally enjoying each other’s collective company, our get-together had another purpose, which was to (finally, yes, finally) sample some of the wines sent to us…
Category: wine tasting
The Art of Random Wine Tasting (Visiting Whole Foods’ VA Wine Tasting Room)
Today we’ll be talking about listening to entire rock albums vs. individual MP3 song downloads, wine preservation systems, on-line store boycotts, Jenga, and Mozart. Yeah, I know – how do I get myself into these messes, right? Let’s start with the albums vs. individual songs thing. At heart, I’m an album guy. What I mean…
The Real Hidden Danger of Wine Tasting (and THE Essential Tool for Protection)
Some of you out there reading this who may be in the wine trade will already know some of what I’m about to unfold here on the virtual pages of 1WineDude.com. To those people I say this: chime in with some comments to help those who are soon to step into danger’s path. Some of…
Wine on the Deck at Teikoku – This Thursday 6-8PM
Spring. That time when a young man’s fancy turns to love. In my case, it’s a not-so-young man’s fancy for wines. Anyway, although I am mentioning Spring, don’t worry, this is not an intro. for a piece on Rose wines. It’s a bit of a statement of gratitude that the weather has turned gorgeous again….