Tasting Note: 2009 Chasselas-pinot blanc-pinot gris, Quail’s Gate, Okanagan VQA
As vacation time finally hits, I hope I’ll be able to catch up on my posts from all the trips I took this spring in various wine countries. There is much to be told about the Finger Lakes, Cahors,...
View ArticleThis post is pointless – and so is the rest of this blog
I don’t believe in points. That’s why there are no points or other ways of scoring in my tasting notes. I think they’re more confusing than helpful, and that their reliability is so low as to render...
View ArticleWhat happens when you mix culture and alcohol…
I never thought I’d wind up working on such a project, but when my friend Rachel Black, a food anthropologist now teaching at Boston University, asked me if I was interested in contributing to an...
View ArticlePerfection is personal: why 100 points by Robert Parker is just his opinion
Last week, Tom Wark published an extremely interesting and enlightening analysis of wines rated 100 pts – a perfect score – by Robert M. Parker Jr. If anyone needed an argument to say that point...
View ArticleLive wine blogging from WBC11 in Charlottesville, Virginia
The fourth annual Wine Bloggers Conference started officially at 1 PM today in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a great, down to earth keynote speech from Jancis Robinson, followed by breakout sessions...
View ArticleLive Wine Blogging from Charlottesville, Virginia – now, the reds
Yesterday was the Live Wine Blogging session for white wines at the Wine Bloggers Conference. Today, after a great keynote speech by Eric Asimov, who insisted on tasting wine in context, we’re...
View ArticleIt’s official: TasteCamp is headed to Northern Virginia
What I love most about wine writing is the opportunity to discover new wine regions. Since 2009, TasteCamp, founded by my friend Lenn Thompson, has provided me with some of the best opportunities to...
View ArticleTasteCamp Virginia Update: Linden, Fabbioli and Tranquility Added to Agenda
So, when is TasteCamp 2012, again? What do you mean, two weeks? Wow. Time sure flies by when you’re organizing a visit to a wine region. But the important thing is that the agenda for TasteCamp is...
View ArticleTasteCamp 2012 in Virginia: First Impressions
It was almost ironic, for TasteCamp participants who had also visited Virginia for the Wine Bloggers Conference, last year. The weather for the first tasting of this three-day tour of North Virginia...
View ArticleBill C-311 and wine shipping across Canada: what it does (and doesn’t do)
Yesterday evening, the House of Commons unanimously voted in favor of Bill C-311, a private member’s bill presented to the house by Dan Albas, Member of Parliament for Okanagan-Coquihalla, a riding...
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