Wine Pr0n: An Introductory Essay
Most shower heads release about two and a half gallons of water per minute. I usually take about ten minutes, you know, depending on whether or not I condition my mane, which is in the preliminary stages of ‘fro greatness. I’m doing this because that shit’s impressive. Especially when I’m tasting wine, and people want...
What’s Your Favorite New Way to Learn About Wine?
The path to being a wine rockstar is littered with dead sentences, you literally need to read as much as you drink, and you need to be drinking a hell of a lot. There’s important stuff you gotta learn, like the difference between le Chambertin and simply Chambertin. You don’t want to be the fool...
My Wine Predictions for 2011
I pride myself on not being a typical blogger. I strive not to write boring meta-narrative drivel such as, “So, last night I was having drinks with my boys, pounding down the PBR like I was trying to solve world hunger when I realized, over a half eaten chicken wing and a serendipitous update from...
What Wine Mags Do You Read?
Last week I added my set of eyeballs to the 2,831,00 affluent readers who scan the pages of Wine Spectator on a monthly basis. I’ve flipped through the mag on occasion, usually when killing time at Barnes and Noble and all the copies of Bearded Magazine have already been claimed by some other jaded hipsters. In...
Merry Thanxgivin’ Interwebz
Happy football day! I hope you are spending this day with people you love, calling those that you can’t be with, and getting partially inebriated and fully stuffed. Here are a few videos of Grant Achatz from Alinea, a newly minted Michelin 3 Star recipient, cooking a homemade Thanksgiving dinner that makes your fancy feast...
