Wow! You people sure do like your ZAP. Or you sure do like your Zinfandel. Or both, probably. Between the comments, retweets, Facebook Likes, e-mails, and other versions of time-sucking on-line virtual social water-cooler spots, my giveaway of tickets to some of the ZAP 2012 events generated a few hundred reactions (with over 100 coming…
The Top Three Reasons Why I’m Not Talking About The Latest Wine Advocate Scandal
Before you flame me, Yes, I am already aware of the irony of today’s title. I realize that some of you might have been trapped for the last several days under your collapsed wine racks and several hundred bottles of your collected vino. Or maybe you are just coming off a severe wine bender, Rip…
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For December 10, 2011
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…
The Age-Worthy Taste Of Serendipity, Finger Lakes Style
Few things in life taste as sweet (figuratively, anyway) as serendipity. For me, one of the simplest but most rewarding of life’s little pleasures is to reach randomly in the wine sample pool, and by lucky happenstance come up with something pleasantly surprising – which is exactly what happened to me late last week. Last…