It’s the second day of the 2011 Wine Bloggers Conference and the second round of live blogging. Yesterday, it was all white and rose’ wines in the tasting and today it’s all red wines. Let’s go. The first wine is a 2006 Lovingston Pinotage, a wine from South Africa. The nose of this wine is [...]
Today I am at the 2011 North American Wine Bloggers Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia. And you may be asking yourself, “Why the hell is there a wine bloggers conference in Virginia?” Well, there is actually some very tasty wine made here… it doesn’t all come from California. I haven’t had a chance to taste much [...]
The second US Wine Blogger’s Conference began earlier today and I’m glad to in attendance once again. It’s a gathering of hundreds of wine bloggers like me, along with just many participants from within the wine industry. We’ve already done our opening events (i.e. registration, meet the sponsors, lunch, welcome, etc.) and it’s time for [...]
OK, so no… I didn’t uncover leaked information about who won the Murphy-Goode Really Goode job. But I do know who the real winner is, it’s Murphy-Goode. In case you haven’t heard about this let me give you the background. The folks at Murphy-Goode wine set up a contest where they asked people to apply [...]
My friend Kevin Keith, blogger at Under the Grape Tree and head wine buyer at Liquor Direct in Northern Kentucky, has invited me to present the weekly wine tasting at Liquor Direct this Friday and Saturday, May 15 & 16. It’s really pretty casual, not a formal presentation or anything. Kevin asked me to pick [...]
Yesterday I had the honor to be one of the 45 judges for the upcoming Cincinnati International Wine Festival. There were 350+ wines entered in the competition, of which I only evaluated about 40. I thought you may be curious to get a little behind-the-scenes peek at how judging is done for these competitions—as well [...]
I have a few quick notes for you tonight on some upcoming wine events. Wine Blogging Wednesday #53 You may recall that I was the host for the last Wine Blogging Wednesday, just a few weeks ago, when we featured value red wines from Chile. The next installment of this monthly event will be hosted [...]
