Updated: 2010-02-26 16:00:29
Why?
Because if you have to be convinced, this person is not for you. You’ll only frustrate each other, and too much awesome talent is going to be going down that drain. What a waste that would be for everyone.
Social Media is proving to be not for the feint of heart… nor the laggard of mind.
If [...]
Updated: 2010-02-25 16:00:33
WEEK 4 : Two days after Dark & Delicious, I can certainly use a stiff drink, but will “simma down” and taste this fun, experimental wine.
I’m now into the fourth week. If this wine was going to be showing some wear and tear – in any other container – it would surely be showing it [...]
Updated: 2010-02-25 00:04:02
OK, I have slacked of late. Based on my blog stats it seems I slacked SO much that I have even lost some readers. I hope you will forgive me and come back for my uber compelling wine prose. I’m full of excuses. It is my busy season (50% of kosher wine is sold in [...]
Updated: 2010-02-24 16:00:26
This has been my assertion, since Day 1.
I took this message to the 2009 European Wine Bloggers Conference. I emphatically made this statement in one of the sessions, when it began to be discussed, it didn’t seem to connect with most of the people.
“If you want to monetize your wine blog, get a job in [...]
Updated: 2010-02-23 16:00:36
There is no particular order and no captions for the following images. They’re just the best of the best that I shot.
It’s the suggestions that make Dark & Delicious each subsequent year, so you’ll see them here as positive feedback.
This is a blog entry to let others do the talking. I’m going to upload some [...]
Updated: 2010-02-22 16:00:56
It’s all in a day’s work, but just shows you how a small company has to shift a lot of interesting gears…
As the details were being locked down for 2010 Dark & Delicious, with everything beginning to come together, we got the word from our Tequila Semental client that they had been selected to pour [...]
Updated: 2010-02-10 09:14:42
Melgab International CC Importers of Fine Italian Wine Navigation AccessKey:2 Search AccessKey:4 Home blogs Lorenzo's blog Chianti Classico Divorce Papers Come Through Kerin O'Keefe decanter.com : writes The Chianti Classico Consorzio has confirmed that after 78 years of distancing itself from the Chianti denomination , the divorce is now . final The Chianti Classico zone , the original central growing area for Chianti , was first delimited in 1716 by the Grand Duke of . Tuscany It was relegated to mere subzone status in 1932 when the government divided the much expanded Chianti area into . subzones Since then Chianti Classico , which produces among the best wines in Italy , has fought to distance itself from Chianti , winning its first battle for independence in 1996 when it became its own autonomous . denomination A new ministerial decree goes even further , and bans any vineyards in the Classico zone from being used for Chianti or Chianti Superiore . production This effectively cuts the umbilical cord that has continued to connect the two distinct denominations , Giuseppe Liberatore , director of the Chianti Classico consorzio . said Chianti Classico , whose producers can use
Updated: 2010-01-31 23:13:27
We live at a time when there is lots of good wine on the market. Modern technology and competition have respectively both enabled and forced wineries to make wines of high quality. Even the cheap (budget) wines out there are drinkable. But what about those are just plain bad? As a wine writer and aspiring [...]
