In this exciting edition of Tales of the Purple Monkey, Plumboo (that’s the monkey) and I brave the wilds of Africa, don’t actually taste any wine, and then urge you not to buy a wine that I will recommend. Sort of. Then we end with an exciting announcement that I promise will be wine-related! Plumboo…
Has Anyone Ever Told You that You Look Exactly Like… a Drunk? (Dispatch from a Wine Tasting Room)
I’m guessing that most of you out there have probably been to a wine tasting room in a winery before, and went there to sample that winery’s wines. Which means that the same number of you have probably encountered at least one severely drunken patron acting in a totally obnoxious way. Which also means that…
Found in Translation (Wine Tidbits to Kick-off Your Weekend)
OK… I’ve been sitting on a few wine-related tidbits that, taken individually, I probably wouldn’t have written about; but taken together, they seemed kinda fun. The first tidbit comes to us by way of Italian wine website Sommelier.it, and proves that anyone can be wittier than me without actually trying too hard! The folks over…
Truly Truly Truly (A German Wine Experience, Not Having Anything to do with Space Aliens)
Sometimes (okay, lots of times) I can get truly stumped by the world of fine wine. And today, file me under the Truly Stumped category, because I can’t figure out some of what I’m going to tell you about. Now, before I do that, I should state up front that I’m not really one to…