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So We Beat On, Each Holiday a Rest Stop Along the Great Interstate Highway of Time
March 2nd, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Winebloggers, apparently, like to break the year into topical morsels. Or maybe we’re just short of ideas. Either way, we spot an approaching holiday and get right to work making rules about what people ought to drink that day: which wine to drink with Thanksgiving dinner. Christmas wines. Quick segue to New Year’s Eve sparklers. [...]
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I’m a Plane Ticket and a Label Design Away From Being Rich
January 14th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Over at a Linked-In, a Wine 2.0 discussion turned to the Century Club, the quasi-organisation of people who have tasted the wines of 100 different grapes. One of the discussion participants has dedicating this year to knocking off 40 more varietals so she could be a member.
Which led me to post this:
Maybe this represents a [...]
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And You Wasted Your Time With Champagne
January 6th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Some people celebrated New Year’s Eve with Falling Catfish.
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New and Improved Tasting Notes
December 21st, 2009 by Tom Johnson
This wine blogging takes up a lot of my time, and I’m running out of taste descriptors. From now on, all tasting notes will be generated by computer.
Here’s what I’m drinking tonight.
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“Dintinctly Fruity Overtones are the Mark of a Good Sommelier”
December 16th, 2009 by Tom Johnson
The Onion does wine appreciation.
Hat Tip: Regular commentor Wally.
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Neologism of the Day
December 9th, 2009 by Tom Johnson
According to the New York Times Magazine:
Wine Flu / n. / An annual pandemic whose outbreak coincides with the holidays, usually the morning after an office party, as in, “If last year’s silly season is any indication, our entire staff is going to be out with wine flu.”
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The Prosecution Rests
October 7th, 2009 by Tom Johnson
In a pre-trial bail hearing, the defense attorney for a Boston man accused of stealing a $20,000 bottle of wine kind of let the cat out of the bag when he explained that his client didn’t know the wine was worth that much when he stole it.
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