Just a quick pointer to Tina Caputo’s blog, Wine Broad, where I can be seen sporting a shirt she had made for me on a dare. As you can see, I’m downright ecstatic to be Robert Parker’s personal love slave. Tina has a really great blog going, and I especially like her account of a [...]
July 24, 2007
Tyler from Dr. Vino wrote in yesterday to let me know that his article in the most recent issue of Wine and Spirits has hit the stands back east. This issue commemorates their 25th anniversary and sets out to catalogue the ‘best in the world of wine.” Pinotblogger was listed with 4 other fantastic blogs, [...]
July 17, 2007
Today’s announcement that Inertia has been developing a comprehensive free compliance tool for wineries is really fantastic news for the industry – and especially so for small producers. That Inertia is also opening the system up so that fulfillment houses (and even point of sales systems located in tasting rooms) can access and use the [...]
June 21, 2007
bordering on poetry over at El Bloggo Torcido. Tell me what you ate with the wine. Tell me how the wine made you feel. Tell me how it smelled. Tell me what memories the wine evoked. Tell me what senses were engaged. Tell me what flavors excited you. Tell me how it connected you with [...]
May 8, 2007
Not that I condone excessive drinking, but this article on Modern Drunkard is really pretty entertaining. Andre the Giant, best known (by me) for his fantastic turn in the legendary Princess Bride, is by one author’s account the world’s greatest drunkard. The evidence? Compelling. Andre drank 7,000 calories worth of booze every day Andre once [...]
August 14, 2007
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