1,200 bottles of samples in the basement, and not one Greek wine among them. What. The. HELL?!!? This would happen to me, since I was on the hook for bringing wine to a family dinner date with our neighbors, the Voutsakis clan, who you will have already suspected by reading their name are Greek and…
Guest Post: Planet Of The Grapes For Millennials (a Q&A With Jason Wilson By Shelby Vittek)
[ Editor’s note: Following is a guest post that involves two long-time friends of 1WD, the former unpaid 1WD intern Shelby Vittek, and local Philly boy wine educator Jason Wilson. Shelby recently worked with Jason on Planet of the Grapes, a series of releases about wine that are targeted to Millennials (I have no affiliation…
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For September 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…
Rain, Raisins And Retrospect: Klein Constantia’s Battle To Hold On To The Past
“This would be impressive, really, if you could see any of it.” We’re driving through a winding, makeshift “road” of mud and ditches in the hills of Constantia. I’m wincing in sciatic pain with every bump, which come approximately forty nanoseconds apart courtesy of the damage done by a South African winter of intense rainfall…