In the latest video installment on 1WD TV, I channel my inner Colonel Hannibal Smith and taste a sample of Emblem’s 2006 Rutherford Cab in order to try out another sample: one of the latest wine aerators to hit the market, the cigar-shaped Nuance Wine Finer aerator – all with some surprising results. Many 80s…
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1WineDude TV Episode 26: Don’t Go Hatin’ On Wine Scores
I mean it. Don’t go hatin’ on wine scores just because they get abused. Or because you (like me) don’t care for them much yourself. If you really want to change things in the wine world, then go out there and buy wines that appeal to your own preferences, and based on recommendations from sources…
Testicles, Terraces and Red Tape: The Trials of Port Production in the Douro (1WineDude TV Episode 24)
“Lagare volume dimensions are naturally dictated by the lowest testicles of the shortest man.” Lagares, of course, are the long, low vats in which Port grapes were once (and sometimes still, though rarely) crushed by foot. The quote above is from the straight-shooting Miles Edlemann, the straight-shooting viticulturist for some of the Symington Family estates…
1WineDude TV Episode 23: Sharing the Wine Love (Going Pro in Porto)
I hope you’ll forgive the low production quality and complete lack of credits/intro/music in this vid – I’ve had a pretty difficult time trying to post this from Portugal (due in part to a busy schedule with few breaks, fewer Internet access points, and a rather massive laptop PC crash… the HORROR!). Anyway, I felt…