Listen up, peeps: Rowan Gormley, the head honcho of NakedWines.com will be our guest for Episode 6 of The Punch Down Wine Show! Yes, that NakedWines.com, the one that subsidizes the crazy projects of talented winemakers like Randall Grahm, Jeff Stai, and Jessica Tomei by getting angel investors to shell out cash in exchange for…
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For July 1, 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…
Because It Takes A Philly Boy To Show You Californians How To Make Syrah (Kieran Robinson Recent Releases)
A few weeks ago I got an intriguing email from a California vintner; intriguing in that he was, he told me, originally from my neck of the woods (near Philly in Southeastern PA), and would soon be in town for a wedding. Could we get together over lunch to taste some of the wines he’d…
The World’s Most Bad-Ass View Of The Douro And Porto (From Luftwaffe Fighter Plane)
Remember when I recently mentioned former Luftwaffe pilot and not semi-retired Port media guy Axel Probst? Axel (a.k.a. “Herr Plane” now to 1WD readers) contacted me shortly after that article went live (he wasn’t aware that I was going to mention him) to thank me for the shout-out, and also to share two of the…