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…
Feeling The Heat In California: Are Paso Robles Wines Too High In Alcohol?
There’s one thing you need to know about Paso Robles wine country. It can get hot. And I’m not talking about the Summertime temperatures, or even the Indian-Summertime temperatures, which had busted through the 100F mark not too long before my visit to Paso in October. No, I’m talking about the wines. After tasting through…
The Most Wanted’s 100 Essential Blogs: (Early?) Christmas Edition
Last week, my little old hunk of the global interwebs was named one of the Best Wine Blogs in in the 2011 installment of Most Wanted’s 100 Essential Blogs: Christmas Edition. I’m honored to have been included, because their other blog selections are all great so I find myself dragging down the curve of the…
Pennsylvania’s Privatization Bid Is One Glass Of Wine, Two Glasses Of Bull Honkey
Everybody knows that I “love” the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board [ Editor’s note: this is a boldfaced lie; I think the PLCB acts like a Communist monopoly and therefore I actually hate the PLCB ]. At least, I loved the recent move by Governor Tom Corbett to appoint Joseph “Skip” Brion (that’s his real nickname, by…