With the enormous and successful Twitter Taste Live! / Hospice du Rhone / Wine Riot! combined event behind us, attention can now start to be focused on yet another series of big wine-related events that are entering the Collective Dude-O-Sphere (as I’ve dubbed that pocket of the Universe that contains my ever-decreasing amounts of free…
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2009-04-25
M’Hudi Pinotage (South Africa): This is like the entire pig, skin and all, hanging out in a mulberry bush, ready to jump you. # 06 Four Vines “The Peasant” (Paso Robles): Hefty S. Rhone style blend from CA. Very blackberry, very dark, very heavy, & very tasty. # 07 Bonny Doon Le Vol Des Anges…
My Apology to Wine Spectator (or “Has Hell Frozen Over?!??”)
Here’s something that you don’t see every day. I’m about to give props to Wine Spectator. And I’m going to apologize to their Forum members. I will wait a moment to let the air of collective “WTF?!???” clear the room. Ok… also, please pick your jaws up from the floor. First, let’s provide a bit…
The Punking of Wine’s High Priests
Before I get into the topic of today’s post (which, I’ll tell you now for future reference is “why and how even preeminent wine authorities can be duped”), I first need to give you some background on the world of wine fraud. A few years ago I was on a business trip to Russia (before…