Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
The disappointment of imperfection and dashed hopes can be the worst kind, particularly when your expectations were set inappropriately high. I’m not a big fan of dashed hopes and don’t often take take it well when shown this kind of disappointment can occur. Sometimes it happens in life, sometimes in wine. Among the most recent set of dashed hopes I’ve had to cope with was the disintegration of a set of wines I expected to find great joy from, but…
Over the past two years I’ve given more talks to wine or wine-related audiences than the rest of my career combined. The reason is a function of the world of Blogs having caught the attention of the wine industry and working with Specialty Wine Retailers Association. Outside of making a new client pitch or pitching a story to an editor or writer, it’s probably the most exhilarating thing I do. Although I’ve arranged for clients to take formal training in…
I ate a PopTart today. Specifically, it was a strawberry-filled, glazed PopTart that was toasted. It had been a while, quite a while, since I’d eaten one of these things. It was so God damned good it was scary. I felt felt compelled to drop at least two more in the toaster and gorge myself on a breakfast of..of…well, I don’t really care what they are made of…of PopTarts The key to the PopTart’s amazing goodness, is it’s combination of…
I left the movie theater after watching "Bottle Shock" very disoriented. The movie, loosely based on the 1976 Paris wine tasting that pitted California wines against French wines and that put California wines on the map, provided me with a movie-going experience that I’d never had before. I’ve never watched a film where people I know and people I’ve met were portrayed. But in addition, I’ve never watched a film where the locations used were intimately familiar to me; places…
It’s fairly unusual for this blog to reprint comments for the sake of a new post. But in this case, I think it’s warranted, despite my better judgment—which some would say is on the wane and they may prove to be right dhonig, a commenter on this post, and a fine wine blogger, wrote the following as a response: "The whole thing boils down to a claim that it is "unethical" to commit to writing an unbiased review as a…
