Uhm, like what is this stuff? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be fun, quickly-and-easily-digestible reviews. Below is a wrap-up of the twitter reviews from the past week…
Weekly Wine Quiz: A Cepage By Any Other Name…
Our next round of quizzes will focus on cepages, or wine grape varieties, and the various aliases by which they are known throughout the world. For our first cepage synonym, we will look at a grape that is well known for its wine, but also well known for being well known by many other names….
2009 Bordeaux To Wine World: “Surprise! We’re Overpriced!” (Thoughts From The Union des Grand Crus NYC Tasting)
This is how I imagine many top-tier Bordeaux Chateaux owners end their day: They put down their small glasses of aged Sauturnes (which have been chilled by Winter fairies blowing ice crystals at them), and are lifted out of their easy chairs on large red ribbons made of the finest silk, held aloft by cherubs…
Meet Playboy.com’s New Dot Com Wine Dude
Yep. Really. I’m crazy excited to tell you that I will soon be authoring a freelance wine column on Playboy.com. So now you have some legitimacy behind the “I’m just going there for the articles, honey!” excuse (you’re welcome!). The folks behind Playboy.com reached out to me many moons ago, and the whole thing has…