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…
100 Articles Later (December 2013 Wine.Answers.com Roundup)
It’s hard for me to believe, but since I started my gig as the Answers.com wine dude in the Spring I’ve penned 100 articles for the category (yes, it’s a paying gig; no, I’m not part of their recently announced guest blogger program). So far, it’s been… well, great, actually. I’ve been able to find…