Holy crap! I was greeted by a very pleasant surprise today when I ventured over to the Foodbuzz.com Blog Awards to vote for a few friends of mine whose blogs were nominated in various award categories. That’s when I first noticed that the following category even existed, and did a super-fast-head-fake-double-take upon seeing the list…
A Portrait of the Satirist as an Old Winemaker: An Interview with Bonny Doon’s Randall Grahm
To many people, the charismatic front-man of the iconic Boony Doon wine brands, Randall Grahm, is the Mad Hatter of the wine world. Once they read Randall’s recently-released book, Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vinthology, those same people will realize that they’re dead wrong. Randall Grahm is not the wine world’s Mad Hatter;…
Meet The New Wine Expert: You!
I have seen the future of wine criticism, wine dialog, and wine expertise. Wanna see it? Great – go look in the mirror. Because the future wine experts look an awful lot like you. You look great, by the way – did you cut your bangs? A little over a week ago, Slate.com ran a…
The Powerful Mosel Riesling Kung-Fu of SA Prüm
If I have a love affair with any one fine wine grape, it’s got to be Riesling. I’m not a fan of saying that a particular grape is superior to another when it comes to producing fine wine, but we all have our preferences and at the end of the day if you forced me…