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Final Thoughts on the Symposium for Professional Wine Writers
February 23rd, 2010 by Tom Johnson
My first impression, upon reading of the Symposium, was that it was a brilliant, deep-pocketed way of co-opting wine writers by feting them at a fabulous resort. That whiff of corruption was part of the event’s appeal; I figured I was in for an easy week of tasting and indulgence.
My final impression is that my [...]
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Contemplating a Work of Fiction
February 19th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
After three days with an impressive group of professional wine writers, I come away not only with notes about food and wine, but also with the plot outline of a terrific murder mystery. I got the title from a cooking demonstration at the Culinary Institute of America: The Taste of the Caper.
One of the wonderful [...]
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Overheard at the Wine Writing Symposium
February 18th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
The quote of the day is from Wine Enthusiast West Coast Editor Steve Heimoff, who described his first impression of wine blogging:
“Bad writing by well-meaning but ignorant people.”
Visit Hemoff’s blog here.
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I Know What I’m Getting My Wife for Valentine’s Day
February 10th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
A comprehensive report on the Romanian wine market. Only $875.
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You Are What You Drink
February 5th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
What we drink, we all know from watching TV commercials, sends a powerful message to the world — I mean, assuming the world is interested, which it really isn’t, so we ought to drink whatever we want.
Anyway, I was reading an L.A. Times column about the woes of Saab, and I got a kick out [...]
Tags: Marketing, wine
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Today’s Favorite Google Search
February 1st, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Louisville Juice, the blog of sophisticated sipping, swishing and spitting in the greater Louisville, Kentucky, metropolitan area, would like to welcome whoever it was who came here twice today via a Google search of “Kentucky, the hillbilly state.”
Given the punctuation, I wonder if it was someone in the commonwealth’s marketing department researching a new motto [...]
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It’s Different for Them Than It Is for You and Me
January 23rd, 2010 by Tom Johnson
At a Hong Kong wine auction where people with lots of discretionary income spent $52.9 million, waiters and waitresses mingled through the crowd offering free glasses of Louis Roederer Blanc de Blanc 2003 and Château Haut-Brion 1998.
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Me Too
January 21st, 2010 by Tom Johnson
1 Wine Dude cracks wise after winning a fellowship to the Symposium for Professional Wine Writers, a gathering of serious and knowledgeable people dedicated to the craft of wine writing. 1 Wine Dude’s irreverence affords me the opportunity to note that I, too, have received a fellowship.
Where 1 Wine Dude (non-showbiz name: 1 Winevich Dudezinski) [...]
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For a Second There, I Wanted This Guy On My Thumper Team
January 12th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
In an article about misbehavior on a commercial airliner, this paragraph confused me:
Federal prosecutors say Muhammad Abu Tahir, 47, drank five airplane-sized bottles of wine, argued with flight attendants, locked himself in the lavatory and even removed some of his clothes in a bizarre series of events that lasted two hours.
When I first read this, [...]
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Schadenfreude You Can Believe In
January 9th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
This article makes me think one of the wine mags ought to do a wine gossip column. You know: anonymously-sourced reports on what famous people are drinking.
As Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick canoodled over an unpretentious Txomin Etxaniz txakoli at Per Se, we couldn’t help but notice Lindsay Lohan sleeping off a bottle of [...]
Tags: gossip, wine
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