Gary P. Nunn and Jerry Jeff Walker still want to go home with the Armadillo, and it is hotter than blazes in Texas and America at large in August. Dallas journalist Jeff Siegel features an Italian white -Arancio Grillo 2009 as his Wine of the Week on his popular Wine Curmudgeon blog. Jeff has been [...]
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Celebrating Cristal, Turning Over a New Leaf, Clarifying the 2006 Vintage in Piedmont and Summer splash: 10 great drinks you need to try
Wall Street Journalist Lettie Teague waxes on the glories of Bastille Day with a bucket of Cristal. Nice work if you can get it. Read all about it here: Celebrating Cristal
Meanwhile Dallas Journalist [...]
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Bryan Dale CWE, Tom Verner CWE & Joel McKee CWE
The Society of Wine Educators (SWE) highest certification designation is the Certified Wine Educator (CWE)
I received an email from a friend of mine, Bryan Dale, in San Antonio.
He was bragging about having passed the very difficult CWE exam and thanking me for helping prepare him for [...]
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Tim Atkin has just released his 2009 Bordeaux Special Report and for wine lovers, colectors and investors in the trade this is a must read.
His opening spells it right out:
The 2009 vintage in Bordeaux is already the most talked about harvest of the last 30 years, surpassing 1982, 1990, 2000 and 2005 in terms of [...]
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As the campaign to sell the 2009 Bordeaux futures gears up, here are a few sources to check out. These are people who have enormous expertise in the field. They are some of my “go to” links. Meanwhile, I have posted my observations about the Bordeaux ’9 here
Jane Anson – New Bordeaux & The New [...]
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Billed as “The Biggest Italian Wine Event Ever Held Outside of Italy,” scores of Italian wine-makers, industry professionals and enthusiasts are converging on Manhattan for three days of Italian wine seminars, presentations, tastings and dinners.
This is a joint promotion by the Italian Trade Commission, Veronafiere/Vinitaly and Buonitalia, and is designed to heighten awareness of the [...]
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We put winemaker Jennifer Wall ( who was sporting a pair of boots that would have made Nancy Sinatra proud) in front of the Purple Wall to give us 4 minutes on what is going on at Barefoot Cellars. Good video – she even had the purple bottle and lipstick to match. Seriously, Jennifer is [...]
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Giovanni Nencini is a globe trotting export director for the Da Vinci and Cantina di Montalcino winery group. Based out of Vinci and Montalcino, here is a man with a global view of the wine business. The Blend caught up with him as he was jumping on a plane to NY. The following video is [...]
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To spend any time with Damon Ornowski is a treat to the intellect. He has an encyclopedic memory and can really belt it out in two minutes. In this short take, Damon is waxing on the glories of Gruner.
Next week Damon and I hit the road all across Texas with a carload of Kracher and [...]
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One of the pleasures of the wine and spirits world is to be able to meet people from all over the world. Today I had the great delight to meet Francisco Quijano, the director of Tierra de Agaves, agave growers and makers of the small batch Tequila, Lunazul and the ultra-premium small batch Tequila, La [...]
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