The lack of wine product reviews here lately hasn’t been intentional—blame can be laid squarely at the feet of our toddler, who has been keeping us busy with her daily growth spurts, emotionally-expressive freedom, and overall adorableness. I was, however, afforded a rare opportunity to actually give a product sample a try, mostly because we…
Category: wine products
Dispatch from 1WD Paternity Leave: Wine Product Round-Up!
With a now 4-ish-month-old about, I’m doing a lot less of some things (sleeping, writing blog posts), and a LOT more of others, including diaper changes and rummaging through the sample pool of wine-related products that get sent to me. So in an attempt to rectify some of the former and share some of the…
Kicking Glass (Gabriel Glas Product Review)
Long-time 1WD readers know me as someone who has an inordinate fondness for wine tumblers—I use them more often than stemmed wine glasses, and review the majority of my wine samples while employing the flat-bottomed little wonders. Tumblers have received short-shrift in the wine community, with many leveling the oft-overstated criticism that they encourage unnecessarily…
Wine Product Review Round-up: Special Edition
I’m interrupting the regularly-scheduled Monday mini-reviews for a bit of a long-overdue highlight of some of the wine product samples I receive that can’t be safely imbibed. So, consider this a special edition product review round-up (read: it’s helping me to feel less Roman-Catholic-raised guilt over not having posted product reviews in something like 10,000…