Finally got out to Oregon’s Willamette Valley to do some wine tastin’, picture takin’, and relaxin’. The first thing I noticed while driving from winery to winery is all the dysentery is how they have other stuff planted besides grapes. Drive through any major wine region around the world and you’re likely to find every [...]
Lost in all the crying in my Merlot over wine shipping has been the progress of another wine bill casually making its way through the Maryland House this spring. The Maryland Winery Modernization Act (HB-921) is the major legislative effort from the Maryland Wineries Association. Running a winery includes a lot more than just making [...]
Maynard James Keenan fronts the band Tool whose second album Undertow dominated my sophomore year in high school. Word is that Keenan is off in Arizona making wine now and, to my great pleasure, someone had the good sense to make the movie about it. The trailer: I hope the filmmakers did the right thing [...]
I posted a short bit on Wells Discount Liquors and, thus, became a wine blogger. Fortune and Glory ensued. At the time, my goal was to cover Maryland and Virginia Wines as they tried to grow from also-rans into respectable wine regions. Since then I have published 217 posts (and at least 400 typos) about [...]
Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr user goopymart I posted this on OWC but it fell on deaf ears. Maybe I didn’t mention Twitter enough. Anyway, I know of some smarty-pants people that read this blog so I thought I’d throw out a 100-point-toss-up… We have cellar management, community tasting notes, price comparisons, scores, professional [...]
Pinot Law went into a great in-depth post about where underage kids get their alcohol. I ramble on and blowhard about things from time to time, but it’s nice to see people actually doing the legwork and producing actual numbers. Regarding the data, Pinot Law asserts: Although the chart identifies the numerous ways in which [...]
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