I’m thrilled to be hosting the next Wine Blogging Wednesday (#67) right here on 1WineDude.com, which will take place on Wednesday, March 24th! I haven’t hosted a WBW event since November 2008 (WBW #51), so I wanted to make sure that I had a really cool theme for the event – and I think the…
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Putting the OLD in Old Vine Zinfandel (Tasting Wellington Vineyards)
When it’s cold outside, as it has been the last few weeks in the Mid-Atlantic, one craves a wine that is… warming, big, bold. When there’s a blizzard, as there was in the Mid-Atlantic not too long ago, one doesn’t reach for Orvieto; one reaches for something, well, just… obnoxious. Bone-warming wine calls for dark…
Men Should Not Wear Cowboy Hats, and A Vision of Thomas Keller as A Psychopath (Tasting Rocca Vineyards Cab)
I’m sorry, but someone had to say it. Men should not wear cowboy hats. Well, most men shouldn’t wear cowboy hats. They’re not cool. Cowboy hats look cool on approximately 0.002% of the U.S. population, and most of those are women, so sorry guys – chances are you are not in that population subset. As…
Carrot-Top Elegance: The Inaugural Releases of Rossi-Wallace
I should just cut to the chase and tell you that the first releases from Rossi-Wallace border on beguiling, and that you should buy them now if you can, especially given their limited production. But that’s just downright boring, right? So, I feel obligated to kind of, you know, spruce it all up a bit….