January 2011

A Return To My Roots at ZAP

January 14, 2011

It’s been four years since I’ve attended the Zinfandel Advocates and Producers (ZAP) Grand Tasting in San Francisco. But this year I will be making the pilgrimage once again due to the fortuitous timing of a speaking engagement and business trip. ZAP is not only a place to taste an amazing cross section of wines made from [...]

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The 100-point Scale and The Myth of Precision

January 14, 2011

Every once and a while the debate about the 100-point scale swirls around the wine blogosphere (and now wine twitteratti). The latest flash-point is wine critic and recently turned blogger James Suckling who posted a video on his site yesterday detailing how he evaluates wine. Different than a lot of wine bloggers, but consistent with [...]

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Can A Wine Blogger Make A Living Blogging?

January 13, 2011

One of my predictions from 2010, as yet unrealized, is that a wine blogger would figure out a financial model that would make our efforts more than just a labor of love. Fellow blogger Joe Roberts at 1WineDude is blazing the trail on this at the moment but Tyler Colman, who blogs as Dr. Vino, [...]

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Wine Blogging Wednesday Returns February 16; Spanish Theme

January 13, 2011

It’s been a long time since I’ve participated in Wine Blogging Wednesday, the monthly, worldwide virtual wine tasting started in 2004 by Lenn Thompson of the New York Cork Report blog. In fact it’s been over 2 years since I took part in WBW 52. But the event carried on for several more months until [...]

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Cork’d Is Dead; Does Anyone Care?

January 12, 2011

It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged about Wine 2.0, the term used to describe the intersection of wine and Web 2.0. But I guess it’s time for a gut check as Cork’d chairman Gary Vaynerchuk announces the gradual wind-down of the site after 4 years of operation. Gary purchased Cork’d a couple years [...]

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Are American Wines Too Clean?

January 12, 2011

Dan Berger is one of the bedrocks of wine writing. In fact, he is one of the few that remain from my formative years when I discovered wine in the 1980′s and he wrote for the Los Angeles Times. So Mr. Berger’s opinion on wine carries a lot of weight with me. So I was [...]

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6,100 Year Old Winery Discovered In Armenia

January 11, 2011

Wine is an ancient beverage. So old that it existed before modern man walked the earth. All that is required to make wine comes from the vineyard. Basically grapes and the native yeast on it’s skin that turns the sugar in the berries to wine. It seems like magic or the hand of the Creator [...]

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How Do You Say ‘Sideways’ In Japanese?

January 11, 2011

By way of Dr. Vino’s blog I was informed about the Japanese remake of Sideways. Apparently set in Napa Valley the film has more obvious product placement than in the American original. The following clip looks like there is a serious side to the remake but check out the source link and watch the wacky [...]

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