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Tattoo You: Hate Points? Get Some Body Art!

Date: Tue, Aug 10, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

I don’t normally read press releases that are e-mailed to me (usually they are destined for the Delete key), but this one hit my (perpetually overflowing, groaning from the strain and taxed beyond all logical, sane measure) Inbox last night and it caught my eye for reasons that will appear obvious in just a minute. [...]

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Crouching Price, Hidden Ridge: When Lowering a Wine’s Price Can Work

Date: Mon, Aug 9, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Hidden Ridge Vineyard is technically in Sonoma County, though it’s a stone’s throw from Pride Mountain Winery and is pretty close to Napa, as the crow flies. But in order to actually get to Hidden Ridge’s insanely, almost Mosel-esque steep vineyards in any reasonable amount of time, you’d need to travel as the crow flies.  [...]

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Crouching Price, Hidden Ridge: When Lowering a Wine’s Price Can Work

Date: Mon, Aug 9, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Hidden Ridge Vineyard is technically in Sonoma County, though it’s a stone’s throw from Pride Mountain Winery and is pretty close to Napa, as the crow flies. But in order to actually get to Hidden Ridge’s insanely, almost Mosel-esque steep vineyards in any reasonable amount of time, you’d need to travel as the crow flies.  [...]

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Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2010-08-07

Date: Sat, Aug 7, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

09 Benziger Sauvignon Blanc (Sonoma/Lake County): Clean & charming. Kind of the Mr. Clean of Cali. SBs, only without the earring. $15 B+ # 08 de Coelo "Terra Neuma" Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast): Challenging vintage births a juicy, mouthwatering fist full of dark cherries. $69 B+ # 08 de Coelo "Quintus" Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast): [...]

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Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2010-08-07

Date: Sat, Aug 7, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

09 Benziger Sauvignon Blanc (Sonoma/Lake County): Clean & charming. Kind of the Mr. Clean of Cali. SBs, only without the earring. $15 B+ # 08 de Coelo "Terra Neuma" Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast): Challenging vintage births a juicy, mouthwatering fist full of dark cherries. $69 B+ # 08 de Coelo "Quintus" Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast): [...]

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Harried Diner and The Goblet of Wine

Date: Thu, Aug 5, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Last night, Mrs. Dudette, the Dudelette and I tried out a relatively new family-dining-style BYO Italian bistro in our area. Just about everything at this new-ish joint was very, very good – from the friendly service right on through to the tasty, looks-like-it-just-came-out-of-grandma’s-kitchen pasta. I say “just about everything” because, as you will see in [...]

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Harried Diner and The Goblet of Wine

Date: Thu, Aug 5, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Last night, Mrs. Dudette, the Dudelette and I tried out a relatively new family-dining-style BYO Italian bistro in our area. Just about everything at this new-ish joint was very, very good – from the friendly service right on through to the tasty, looks-like-it-just-came-out-of-grandma’s-kitchen pasta. I say “just about everything” because, as you will see in [...]

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How To Make Wine Evaluation Even Less Objective? Don’t Spit!

Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Lately I’ve found myself at (what I’d consider to be) a lot of (what I would call) professional (or, at least, semi-professional) environments in which I am expected (or at least it seems that way) to taste wine in the hopes that I might critically evaluate it (but with fewer parenthetical interruptions if I do). [...]

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How To Make Wine Evaluation Even Less Objective? Don’t Spit!

Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Lately I’ve found myself at (what I’d consider to be) a lot of (what I would call) professional (or, at least, semi-professional) environments in which I am expected (or at least it seems that way) to taste wine in the hopes that I might critically evaluate it (but with fewer parenthetical interruptions if I do). [...]

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Wine Appreciation, The Andromeda Paradox, and The Forever Present Moment

Date: Mon, Aug 2, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Hang on to your tin foil cone hats, people. Today’s discussion is about to get… freaky. For those of you who give up on me in this post, I promise this will be the last time I talk about the Andromeda Paradox in relation to wine, ok? You see, the thing is, time is relative. [...]

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Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2010-07-31

Date: Sat, Jul 31, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

07 Virage (Napa Valley): Definitely one to watch; big, succulent & spicy Cab Franc from (mostly) Carneros coming your way in Oct 2010 $45 B+ # 07 Araujo Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Eisele Vineyard (Napa Valley): About as superb (& pricey) as it gets in the Valley. Beguiling. $265 A # 07 Araujo Estate Syrah Eisele [...]

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Context Is Everything: Araujo Estate vs. “The Score”

Date: Thu, Jul 29, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Bart Araujo is an intense man. It’s obvious when you meet him, if you’re paying enough attention. And you’d have plenty of opportunity to pay attention during a visit to his Araujo estate, which for me began not in the vineyard, but in the winery’s offices. We were standing in front of empty bottles of [...]

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1WineDude TV: Candid Conversations With Napa’s Next Gen Winemakers

Date: Wed, Jul 28, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

What do you get when you gather five young, “next-generation” Napa vintners around a table and talk shop?  Besides “buzzed on some really good juice,” I mean? Essentially, that’s the question I was hoping to answer when I worked with the Napa Valley Vintner’s Association to set-up a round-table discussion with some of Napa’s best [...]

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1WineDude TV Episode 15: Underground Wine Road at Benziger

Date: Mon, Jul 26, 2010 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

Although the term terroir gets tossed around like confetti at an Italian wedding these days, there are several (mostly family-owned and –operated) wine properties in Napa and Sonoma that are taking the idea seriously. One such property is Benziger, who biodynamically farm grapes and make wine in a beautiful section of Sonoma County. So much [...]

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