Meet Playboy.com’s New Dot Com Wine Dude
Yep. Really. I’m crazy excited to tell you that I will soon be authoring a freelance wine column on Playboy.com. So now you have some legitimacy behind the “I’m just going there for the articles, honey!” excuse (you’re welcome!). The folks behind Playboy.com reached out to me many moons ago, and the whole thing has...
Joan of Arc, Jules Verne And Vouvray (At The Salon des Vins de Loire)
This week, I’m in the historic-but-tourist-friendly French wine region of the Loire, on a press trip attending the the 2012 Salon des Vines de Loire. This annual vinous showcase in Angers features about as many Loire wines as the Loire river is measured in miles (over 600). So, I’m expecting to spit… a lot (and...
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For February 4, 2012
Uhm, like what is this stuff? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be fun, quickly-and-easily-digestible reviews. Below is a wrap-up of the twitter reviews from the past week...
Weekly Wine Quiz: Room To Grow?
Hereby marketh the fourth installment of the Weekly Wine Quiz! Based on feedback from ever-so-vocal-and-intelligent YOU, I will not be supplying the answer directly in the post – you will need to tune back in later in the comments section for the answer. So you can put your answer in the comments for potential bragging...
“Proof That Social Media Has Forever Changed The Landscape Of Wine?”
Well… if this isn’t “proof that social media has forever changed the landscape of wine” (their words, not mine), then I’m not really sure what is. Ok, so it’s not really proof, but it’s hard to deny the traction when someone like me makes the top 20 in a list like this. And #14?? Seriously?!?...
New York Wine Expo 2012 Is Nigh (And YOU Can Get $15 Off Through March 1st!)
By some minor miracle, I may actually be able to attend the New York Wine Expo in March. For the last few years, I’ve had to miss this vinous shin-dig held at the ginormous Jacob K. Javits Convention Center because I’ve been roughly 2,898 miles away from it when it’s been held. But this year,...
Vintage-Dated, Premium… Grape Juice?
Imagine this scenario… You pour yourself a glass from a premium bottle, the aromatic liquid spilling forth with the tell-tale floral and stone fruit aromatics of high-quality Riesling. You take a long whiff, then a sip, swooshing the liquid around in your closed mouth to get all the volatile compounds going, noting the secondary aromas...
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For January 28, 2012
Uhm, like what is this stuff? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be fun, quickly-and-easily-digestible reviews. Below is a wrap-up of the twitter reviews from the past week...
Weekly Wine Quiz: When It Comes To Bubbly, Do You Know Your Letters?
Continuing our Champagne theme for the Weekly Wine Quiz, we’ve got a relatively tough question queued up this week. Let’s see which of you Champers fans really knows his or her (or, if you’re a hermaphrodite, his AND her) stuff… When It Comes To Bubbly, Do You Know Your Letters? Champagne production is one of the...
Surprising Stars From Aussie Wine’s “A+” NYC Event
Considering that I’ve been so surprised by the high quality of some Aussie white wines in the last several months, it seems surprising that I should be surprised at all when Aussie wine surprises me these days. And yet, my mind is simple enough (and apparently entrenched enough in its own little preconceived notions) that...
Wine Knows Trivia iPhone App Giveaway!
With the buzz happening around the Weekly Wine Quiz, I’ve got wine trivia on the (vino-soaked) brain lately. So it seemed serendipitous that I was contacted by the folks at Trivia Knows to try out their new cross-platform mobile wine trivia game, Wine Knows Trivia. They invited me to take a sample test rive of...
Where Can Wineries Really Innovate? In Engaging The People Who Actually Drink The Stuff!