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.
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What I Learned in Canada, One
Somewhere along their evolution, Canada grew up. They looked around at their situation and looked at ours and said, “Nah, let’s not.”
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.
It is TIME to Go To Electronic Voting…NOW!
We possess the technology, we have the pressing need. It’s time to live in the 21st century, folks.
Wine Descriptors: The Translators Are Almost Always Wrong
You’re reading this now because, as with one other post, here, last week, this little gremlin popped up AGAIN, yesterday, looking for all the world like it was brand new.
“Wine Tasting is Bullshit”: A Stake in the Heart of a Moronic Myth
If you want advice on your cholesterol level, do you go to a guy who repairs lawnmowers? You want advice about wine, go to somebody who knows wine.
Rant # Two on Hard Seltzer: On the Occasion of Idiocy
This adulation of frat-boy tastes ignores a major FACT of the Craft Beer Phenomenon: we all went All In on craft beer because we wanted flavors – and not the same three that were all BudMillerCoorsPabst had to offer.
The Pour Fool 