What makes a wine great? I don’t mean great as in “pretty tasty, I like it, it’s got a nice beat and I can dance to it” great. I mean eye-popping, life-changing, “the heavens opened ancient mythology style” great. That’s a tough question, even for those of us in the wine biz, because so few…
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Meditation By The Glass: The Mindfulness of Wine Appreciation
(images: all from Joe’s house!) Although I was raised in the shadow of Roman Catholicism, I am not by any stretch of the imagination a religious man. In fact, after attending an Oblate grade school, a Franciscan high school, and a Jesuit university for undergrad, I ended up totally religiously-confused. Not exactly a poster-child for…
20 Things About Life I’ve Learned From Drinking Wine
(images: davidzinger.wordpress.com, elsnoozo.blogspot.com, history.com, aceface.com) It’s been said in some Eastern traditions that to be born a human is a rare event. To be a human and to question the source of life (to become a Seeker) is rarer still. And rarest of all is to seek and find your guru, the way to enlightenment….
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…