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Holiday Smack-Up: Homerism and the Sublime at Walter Dacon

Walter Dacon wines, vintage after vintage, are in the top two or three Syrahs I sample from all of Washington and are sometimes flatly the best I taste.

Holiday Smack-Up: The Mega-Value Reds All-Stars

You DO NOT need to spend anywhere north of $50 to get a great bottle of wine for that will shock ‘n’ awe your family, for holiday dinners, or your friend, as a gift.

Hiding in Plain Sight: Olalla Vineyards & Winery

Take an hour, step out of America for a while, and slide into a tiny Euro-style glen where great things are being done with so little fanfare that it’s almost a secret. Olalla Winery is The Real Deal.

Why Wine Opinions Often Suck

We assume that an 89 point wine cannot be as good as a 94 point wine and the economic ramifications of that presumption are MASSIVE; the sort of fatheaded ‘tude that can put smaller wineries out of business.

Quasi-Rant: The Winery Fire of Expectations

A great deal of wine appreciation has to do with our early wine indoctrination and whatever the current, ever-changing cultural Hot Thang was when we were at our most impressionable.

What I Learned in Canada, Two. The Tastings.

If you enjoy beer and wine and any kinds of distilled booze, definitely make plans to get up to Vancouver Island, like NOW.

Your Buying Guide for the Zombie Apocalypse: A Proposal

If you like having the choices and don’t want to lose the privilege of having options AND great, fun visits to local breweries, wineries, and distilleries, KEEP GOING BACK AND BUYING BOOZE.

Panthera Chard: Hess Slays the Tedium

The Hess Collection “Panthera” Russian River Valley Chardonnay is a swoon-inducing, sexy, lavish, eye-popping Wow Wine; one of the two or three best of the Semi-Old School California Chards I’ve tasted in the past ten years

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