Instances and identification of the Wine Snob in the wild The wine snob is easily encountered but often difficult to successfully identify in the wild. This is because the wine snob in almost all salient ways physically resembles the human homo sapiens. Often, the only way to successfully identify the wine snob is via verbal…
The Most Viewed 1WineDude Articles Of 2013
Heading into tomorrow’s inevitable ugly, I-want-to-rip-out-my-own-skull painful hangover, we’re going to take a quick look back on 1WD for 2013, get pensive and reflective for a few moments, and then get back to drinking. And so this year, we change up that retrospective look yet again (in 2012, I went with the Ten Most Shared…
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For December 30, 2013
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible reviews of currently available…
Anatomy Of A Twitter Wine Tasting Homerun (2011 Donnafugata Ben Ryé Passito di Pantelleria)
Back on December 18th, 2013, a Sicilian dessert wine made from dried Zibibbo (aka Muscat of Alexandria) ruled the wine twitter world for an hour. Think about that for a minute. A $40 half-bottle of sweet wine. Of Zibibbo. From Sicily. I recently wrote up the top five most mentioned wines online in 2013, and…