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This Would Have Been Perfect for My Recent High School Reunion

July 19th, 2010 by Tom Johnson

The Wine Helmet.

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I Say: Good Work, Fred!

June 3rd, 2010 by Tom Johnson

Fred over at NorCalWine wastes precious Internet resources explaining how Lindsay Lohan’s court-ordered, alcohol-sensing bracelet works. The bracelet measures alcohol levels in Lohan’s system by doing what a lot of you would like to do, too, I’d bet: analyzing Lohan’s sweat. You know what would be cool? If someone developed a phone app that would [...]

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Learning From the Ancient Greeks

May 17th, 2010 by Tom Johnson

“Symposium” is a word that descends from the Greek sympotein, which means to drink together. Originally, a symposium was a kind of ancient Greek talking/drinking party at which philosophers and writers gathered to lounge around discuss serious matters while more-or-less plastered. We have since drained the blood out of this and turned it into a [...]

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Yet Another Faddish Manifestation of the Good Life That Really Needs to Pass Kentucky By

May 10th, 2010 by Tom Johnson

Consider the concept of matching food, wine and your own personal fragrance, from the Beauty Snob blog: I’ve been to a lot of events over the years, but one of the most memorable took place a few days ago when I went to the famed NYC restaurant Aureole (though I don’t think anything could top [...]

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Bring on the Whacky

April 1st, 2010 by Tom Johnson

Unpredictable wine bloggers jump aboard the April Fools Day bandwagon here, here, here, here, here and here. And I think here, though it’s hard to tell. Also maybe here, though it makes a good satirical point so I’m not sure it meets the standard of a real April Fool. UPDATE: Damn. I missed Benito. UPDATE: Et tu, [...]

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If Wine Blogging Were More Like Political Blogging

March 21st, 2010 by Tom Johnson

I know: it’s all my fault. I opened this can of worms by suggesting that wine blogs should be more like political blogs. I might as well close it. Below, the comment thread from a hypothetical wine blog, if wine blogs were, indeed, more like political blogs. COMMENTS 1 Wine Fellow Great post, Tom. Gotta [...]

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Ten Wine Rules and Why You Don’t Ever Want to Break Them

March 16th, 2010 by Tom Johnson

Don’t sniff the cork. It smells like ass. Drinking wine out of anything but approved wine glasses can cause drowning. If you match an acidic wine – Chianti, say – with a non-acidic food like tuna salad, your lips will pucker and your face will freeze that way. Old wine should be handled gently. During [...]

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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 [...]

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