Welcome to the post-Valentine’s Day Hangover edition of the Weekly Wine Web Wrap-up (where Dude highlights some of his favorite wine news items over the past week)! Is it Getting Hot in Here, or is it Just Me?You’d have been hard-pressed (ha-ha) to miss stories this week about the impact of global warming on the…
The Official 1WineDude Wine “Mini-Reviews” Page (published via twitter)
In January of 2008, I began to get into the Wine 2.0 conversation and started to post wine reviews on twitter. For those of you not familiar with twitter, it’s essentially a ‘micro-blogging’ platform that allows you to post short updates about what’s happening in your life. And when I say short, I mean it…
Wine Makes You Sexier (I’m just sayin’…)
(image: www.yandy.com) And it’s not because the object of your desire becomes more desirable after you’ve put on the “wine goggles.” According to a survey jointly sponsored by the Australian Wine Council and on-line dating service Match.com, having a healthy knowledge of the world’s most romantic beverage makes you more attractive, with those people preferring…
WBW #42 – Seven Word Wine Review (Banfi Rosso di Montalcino)
This month’s edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday comes to us courtesy of Spitton.biz, who have tasked the collective talents of the budding wine blogging community by asking us to review an Italian Red, using just seven words. Tricky, to say the least (get it?); especially for those of us whose prose, how shall I put…