“You have a tall task — on two fronts.” Those were the words my friend and consigliere Jeff Lefevere (who has got to be the most talented blogger currently not blogging) had for me when I asked him for advice in interviewing movie icon Francis Ford Coppola about his Sonoma wine endeavors. “Coppola is near…
Category: Wined Down (Playboy.com)
Wined Down: Pinot, Sex, And Getting Even With The Wine Biz
You’d think that when you gather wine lovers into one conference area with the promise of imbibing a lot of vino in short order, they’d have little over which to argue. But that’s not the case when Sideways (and its follow-up Vertical) author Rex Pickett is also in the same conference area. Pickett’s keynote/interview at…
Ranking The World’s Most Ass-Kicking Wine Regions (Wined Down)
Last week, my Playboy.com column ran a list of The Five Most Ass-Kicking Wine Regions, which I dubbed “The 2012 Edition” because I hope to run the list annually, kind of like the annual Most Interesting Wines of the Year round-up that runs here every December. I expect – and probably deserve – to take…
Getting Hip At The Washington Post, And Raiding The Wine Expense Account With Ornellaia At Playboy.com
A couple of weeks ago, I cropped up in two totally unrelated places on the “Global Interwebs” – Playboy.com (which you expected, right?) and The Washington Post (which, admit it, you didn’t expect). The Washington Post article, titled Some wineries adding a little hip to swirl, sniff and sip routine, was one of those rare…