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The United Slurps of America. Also, Some Organic Wines Still Suck

Date: Tue, Mar 9, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Actually, let’s take those in reverse order. Here’s the deal – I have a love/hate affair with organic wines.  I love the fact that they’re organic and environmentally-friendly; I hate many of the wines because they’re not any good. And I’m convinced that enough wine consumers have reached a similar conclusion that they actually avoid buying wines [...]

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Uncorking “Corked: A Memoir” (The Kathryn Borel Interview)

Date: Mon, Mar 8, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Reading Corked: A Memoir, you may find that you don’t much like author Kathryn Borel.  And it will probably have nothing to do with her being a Canadian (sorry, Canada… just poking fun at you because you won all of those Olympic hockey gold medals…). She is, by her own fearless admission, not the best of [...]

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Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2010-03-06

Date: Sat, Mar 6, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

05 Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley): Wild berry party spoiled by too much green, too little body, & too high a price tag $100 B # 05 Freiherr Langwerth von Simmern Rauenthaler Baiken Riesling Spatlese (Rheingau): Stately, clean & just a *tiny* bit cloying. $40 A- # 05 Wolffer Estate Claletto (Long Island): Fab Amarone-style Cab [...]

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How To Make Money Writing About Wine (A Glimpse Into the 2010 Wine Writers Symposium)

Date: Fri, Mar 5, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

This week, Alder Yarrow posted video coverage of the Wine Writing & Social Media panel discussion that he moderated at the most recent Wine Writers Symposium held in Napa. I was fortunate to have attended the Symposium and to have sat in on the panel that Alder moderated.  It’s great to have the video captured for [...]

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Radio Ga-Ga (Talkin’ Premiere Napa on WineBizRadio)

Date: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Last week, I had the pleasure of being the guest on WineBizRadio, the great Sonoma-based wine business radio program with which most of you savvy readers will already be familiar. I always enjoy riffing with show hosts Kaz and Randy, and I had a fantastic time discussing the recent Wine Writers Symposium (Facebook fan page), Premiere [...]

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Seeing Red For the First Time (Wine Blogging Wednesday #67)

Date: Wed, Mar 3, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

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 one [...]

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Premiere Napa Valley: One Dude’s Tasting Notes

Date: Tue, Mar 2, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

We know that I’m not terribly fond of massive tastings.  I did thoroughly enjoy myself at Premiere Napa Valley, however, even if I didn’t get to try all 200 of the wines, mostly because the experience, with lots of people in close proximity to wine and to each other, is uber-social.  For a gadfly like [...]

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Red Wine, Purple Teeth & Silver Linings: Premiere Napa Valley 2010

Date: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Sometimes the best way to convey the essence of an event is via comparison.  Especially when that event might be too noisy and hectic to capture on video.  Or, when you’re video recorder isn’t fully charged, so all you have are pictures, words, and memories. And teeth stains. Honestly, I think that my dentist is about to [...]

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Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2010-02-27

Date: Sat, Feb 27, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

08 Lamoreaux Landing Red Oak vineyard Riesling (Finger Lakes): As refreshing as a grapefruit & crisp green apple cocktail. $20 B # 05 Swanson Vineyards Merlot (Oakville): Aiming for Right Bank Bord'x. Not a direct hit, but a killer black licorice effort anyway. $36 A- # NV Alice White Lexia (SE Australia): Imagine a mango sorbet, but [...]

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Robert Parker’s Job Is Safe (A Tasting Perspective on Premiere Napa Valley’s Perspective Tasting)

Date: Thu, Feb 25, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

You probably could have guessed that Robert Parker isn’t at high risk for becoming unemployed anytime soon without me explicitly stating it, but I thought I should clear up that I’m not after his job, in case there develops any rampant speculation on that topic in the future. This is because I have never been, [...]

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1WineDude TV Episode 10: Go Forth, And Blend! (An Interview with Franciscan’s Janet Myers)

Date: Wed, Feb 24, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Most 1WineDude.com readers will already be aware that my fellowship to last week’s 2010 Professional Wine Writers Symposium was underwritten by Franciscan.  As part of the fellowship award, Franciscan invited me to a private tasting and interview with Janet Myers, the wine director who also handles winemaking duties at Mt. Veeder. Janet is a geek, in [...]

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Putting the OLD in Old Vine Zinfandel (Tasting Wellington Vineyards)

Date: Mon, Feb 22, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

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 color, [...]

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Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2010-02-20

Date: Sat, Feb 20, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

95 Dalla Valle Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley): Rarely, words are inadequate to convey a wine's sublime & heavenly balancing act. $350 A+ # 81 Trefethen Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley): Spice & barnyard suggest its previous potential, now thoroughly dead. (Price N/A) C # 07 William Hill Chardonnay (Napa Valley): A deftly balanced take on the Napa [...]

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The 2010 Wine Writers Symposium in 10 Easily Digestible & Tasty Morsels

Date: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Alternative title: “What I Learned (So Far) At the 2010 Professional Wine Writers Symposium in Napa” Symposium Chairperson and Wines & Vines editor Jim Gordon, may, in fact, be the sweetest and most patient person on the planet (there remains one more day of symposium activities in which to properly test this theory). The amount of [...]

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