If you’ve ever wondered how to handle the delicate matter of telling a hoity-toity sommelier or wait staff that the wine you ordered isn’t up to snuff, without making one or both of you look like a total douchebag, you’re in luck because we tackle that very topic over at my latest Wined Down column…
Tag: playboy.com
Wined Down: Manning Up To The Best Spirit For Wine Lovers
I often get asked if/when/how 1WineDude.com will start incorporating spirits and/or beer. For those of you who’ve asked me about that, or have thought about asking me about that, I give you the first two paragraphs of my latest Playboy.com Wined Down entry: “Question: What would Chuck Norris pour himself a glass of when he…
Wined Down At Playboy.com: The *Real* Mystical Power Of Rosé
Okay, so there are a couple of reasons behind my pronouncement that people ought to be drinking rosé wine all year long and not just during the flowery, blooming, highly-allergenic (I really should have bought stock in a tissue paper company) months of Spring. First is that a good rosé is often one of the…
Young Guns (Interviewing Envolve’s Bachelor For Playboy.com)
Ok, so, let’s get one thing out of the way right now: NO we did NOT talk about that Courtney chick, okay? During my recent jaunt to Napa Land, I stopped at the (gorgeous) Puma Springs vineyard for a quick lunch-and-tasting interview with two of the young gun winemakers behind the Envolve wine, the most…