Welcome to the Weekly Wine Quiz! This week, we’re continuing a short run of questions about the Argentine wine biz, since I’ve recently returned from a two week jaunt down there (courtesy of Wines of Argentina) to judge in the 2013 Argentina Wine Awards (much more to come on all of that jazz soon). And…
Domaine De La Romanee-Conti 2010 (Yeah, We’re Actually Going There)
I’m interrupting all of the planned 1WD content to cave in and give you the low down on the 2010 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti event held at NYC’s A Voce Columbus earlier in March this year, to which I was invited (as just about any of you following my twitter feed already know). I won’t…
Investing In Fine Wine Is For Fools
“Investing” in fine wine is a fool’s errand. As in, “greater fools” – for it is certainly a fool who hopes to sell his/her speculation to greater fools for a profit. The term greater fool is actually a pseudo-technical financial one, probably best explained in William J. Bernstein’s amazing book The Four Pillars of Investing…
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For March 11, 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…