Drink Local: AGAIN, Why This is What Saves Us.
As far as I am concerned, there is NO EXCUSE for ANY functionally intelligent American adult to be drinking ANY beverage from global mass-producers. NONE.
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The Ultra-Premiums: Why They Don’t Matter
Ultra-premium beverages do not matter. They are not a part of the universe that the VAST majority of us live in.
“Shelf Turds”: The Blind Spot on the Wine Shop Rack
These are, without exaggeration, some of the best values you will ever run across in wine and has no relationship at all to the quality of the wine.
A Quick List of Inarguables for the Holidays: Wine
I have never stopped being baffled by human nature. EVERY TIME I have posted a list of suggestions for holiday Continue reading
Killing Merlot: Why We Did It, How It ALMOST Worked
The condemnation of Merlot, when I started working in wine, was near universal. Many shops didn’t carry more than two. Some put it on the very bottom shelves. Nobody sat and drank it.
The Two Worlds of Wine: A Long-Simmering Rant
The whole culture of wine is and always has been, at least in part, about exclusion, of an established pecking order in wine consumption and appreciation that is as old as wine itself.
Tacoma – and Your Hometown: A Metaphor and A Cautionary Tale
This future is something not that we have to create, it is something we get to create; a wonderful, limitless challenge and can be enormous fun and a good living, IF we have the guts and don’t let the knee-jerk naysayers drag us off the path, into their weeds.
Less Is More (I Hope!): Reds for Holidays
These are five iconic reds that have stood the test of time and shown reliable, remarkable skill in the winemaking, by a producer tight-focused on drinkability first and art down the list a bit.
The Pour Fool 