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PA Wineries Get Toasted for Guinness World Record Event

Date: Thu, Jun 3, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

It’s not every day that I get to shout out to my home state for something positive in the world of wine, outside of some of the wine itself, that is – usually it’s to rail against the PLCB monopoly. In this case, the shout out is for an event...

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“The First Serious Wine Blogger”: The 1WineDude Robert Parker Interview

Date: Wed, Jun 2, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

For our latest 1WineDude.com interview, I’m tasked with the difficult job of introducing someone who requires no introduction (at least, not when it comes to the world of fine wine). Today’s interview guest, Robert Parker, is arguably the most...

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Do You Use Mobile Wine Apps?

Date: Tue, Jun 1, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

A strange thing happened to me recently.  Actually, it happened to 1WineDude.com, not to me.  And yes, I mean stranger than the normal level if strange on this blog. I agreed to contribute content to a platform that I can’t really access and...

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Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2010-05-29

Date: Sat, May 29, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

07 Chateau Pineraie Malbec (Cahors): The berries are red, the booze is hot, the brett is funky, & the finish is bittahhhhh. €7 C+ # 09 Chateau Quattre (Cahors): Aparently, hard limestone soils worked by long-standing producers equates to...

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Cahors Malbec Days Festival: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Date: Thu, May 27, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

The International Malbec Days Festival (May 20th-23rd, 2010 in Cahors, France) is now behind us.  Let’s take the Good, Bad and (in some cases, the very) Ugly of the festival, in reverse order: The Ugly: Event Coordination and “Wines that Smell...

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Vote Dude (Maybe) In the 2010 Wine Blog Awards – But At Least Just Vote

Date: Tue, May 25, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

OK, so there’s this Wine Blog Awards thing going on right now. Maybe you’ve heard of it? I’m honored that 1WineDude.com has been included as a finalist by the eleven secret judges – supposedly secret so that we couldn’t bribe...

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Aussie Wine: The Survey

Date: Mon, May 24, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Got another survey comin’ at ya – this time, it’s not from a Masters of Wine student, but from a student in a Masters of Wine Business program in Adelaide Australia. Said student is a guy named Jeffrey Williams, originally from NY but now doing some...

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1WineDude TV Episode 11: Cahors (Malbec Days Festival 2010)

Date: Sun, May 23, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

A very brief intro. into the 2010 International Malbec Days Festival. As for the event – great intro. to Cahors and its wines; confusing marketing strategy / message; terrible, terrible, terrible organization of events and logistics...

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Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2010-05-22

Date: Sat, May 22, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

06 Hall Merlot (Napa Valley): The dark fruits & cocoa are an attraction, but the extraction action might prove to be a distraction. $28 B # 08 Polka Dot Riesling (Pfalz): Refreshing & a touch sweet, limes & lemons abound. Certainly the most fun PD offering I've had. $10 B- # 06 Gaja Ca Marcanda 'Promis' (Bolgheri): [...]

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Cahors Malbec: Feisty and Powerful, But Is It Marketable?

Date: Fri, May 21, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

I’m in Cahors, and it’s one of those thoroughly gorgeously sunny wine country days that at turns make me happy to be alive and secretly, maddeningly spiteful towards those who get to experience this nearly every day. Of course, those turns tend to come after long stints of travel when I’m severely under-caffeinated, so keep that [...]

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The Upside of Wine Globalization

Date: Thu, May 20, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Yeah, I know right? There’s an upside to more and more wine being made more and more in an “international” style by more and more producers in more and more regions? Yes, there is. Yes, I’m serious. No, I haven’t been drinking too much wine while writing this. First, we need to explain what the “international” [...]

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Invisible, Man (Sampling New Stemware from Ravenscroft)

Date: Wed, May 19, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Given its name, you’d expect the “invisibles collection” – a new line of glassware from crystal makers Ravenscroft, to be light, and probably thin. You’d be right of course, based on the stemware sample that they sent to me recently. What you might not expect, though, is the effect that the “Invisibles” glass has on the [...]

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Baby’s Got Malbec (Heading to the International Malbec Days in Cahors)

Date: Mon, May 17, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

If you live in the U.S. (and chances are high that if you’re reading this, you are in the U.S.), then it’s likely that you’ve been drinking some low-priced Malbec wine lately. Don’t take my word for it – for some hard data on Malbec drinking trends in the U.S., you can check out a recent [...]

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Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2010-05-15

Date: Sat, May 15, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

06 Ravines Dry Riesling (Finger Lakes): Going for “steely” and hitting the mark w/ fennel, floral, and a firm acid structure. $17 B # 08 Ravines Argetsinger Vineyard Dry Riesling (Finger Lakes): The Asian pear & sweet apple are good now but the acid promises a future $25 B+ # 07 Ravines Cabernet Franc (Finger Lakes): Lush [...]

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