A hearty shout-out to Randy and Kaz, the hosts of the excellent KVSY radio program and on-line podcast Wine Biz Radio, were very kind in mentioning and discussing my recent post on how to better appreciate wine despite the light-speed pace of how we consumers tend to evaluate our purchases these days. The WBR podcast…
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Zen Wine: The Death of Wine Multitasking (via Chuck Norris)
As much as social media wine wizards and millennials rail against established wine media, most of them (myself included) share with those ‘old media’ types a similar and mistake-prone approach to wine evaluation and appreciation. And that is, the rapid-fire assessment, review, and perfunctory judgment of any given wine. We are judge, jury and executioner…
Zen Wine: David White’s Sippin’ On Top Of The World
I seem to be in ‘book mode’ the last week or two. I’m a bit of a bookworm, so it’s fun for me to mess around at the intersection of wine and the printed word. I still don’t own an eReader device, by the way – I prefer Book 1.0 – you know, the kind…
Postcard From France: Alsatian Cousin’s Visit to Vino Strada
Well, I’m not actually an Alsatian. And I’m not (to the best of my knowledge) related to any Alsatians. That naturally didn’t stop me whatsoever from sampling the wine in Alsace last week while I was in nearby Strasbourg. In fact, in a very un-Alsatian manner I joined a native Strasbourgian (Stras-borg?), a Spaniard, and…